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  2. 2008 Chinese milk scandal - Wikipedia

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    The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants. The chemical was used to increase the nitrogen ...

  3. Melamine - Wikipedia

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    Melamine / ˈmɛləmiːn / ⓘ is an organic compound with the formula C 3 H 6 N 6. This white solid is a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 66% nitrogen by mass, and its derivatives have fire-retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred.

  4. 2007 pet food recalls - Wikipedia

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    2007 pet food recalls. Beginning in March 2007, there was a widespread recall of many brands of cat and dog foods due to contamination with melamine and cyanuric acid. The recalls in North America, Europe, and South Africa came in response to reports of kidney failure in pets. Initially, the recalls were associated with the consumption of ...

  5. Timeline of the 2007 pet food recalls - Wikipedia

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    This timeline of the 2007 pet food recalls documents how events related to the 2007 pet food recalls unfolded. Several contaminated Chinese vegetable proteins were used by pet food makers in North America, Europe and South Africa, leading to kidney failure in animals fed the contaminated food. Both the centralization of the pet food industry ...

  6. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    November 2002; 21 years ago. ( 2002-11) The Vietnamese Wikipedia ( Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.

  7. Cadbury - Wikipedia

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    On 29 September 2008, Cadbury withdrew all of its 11 chocolate products made in its three Beijing factories, on suspicion of contamination with melamine. The recall affected the mainland China markets, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia. [189] Products recalled included Dark Chocolate, a number of products in the 'Dairy Milk' range and Chocolate ...

  8. Melmac - Wikipedia

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    Melmac. Melmac is: A brand name of dinnerware molded from Melamine resin, made by American Cyanamid, most popular in the 1940s through the 1960s. The fictional planet and homeworld to the alien life form in the eponymously titled sitcom ALF (TV series) (see also New Melmac) A Staten Island, NY based ska band from the late 1990s. SKV Melmac, a ...

  9. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese (Vietnamese: tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [ 1 ] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [ 5 ]