Dairy inspections continue in contaminated milk scandal

Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China 1. Wide of milk farmer driving cows into milking station at Yili Dairy 2. Wide of milk farmers milking cows 3. Close-up of machine milking cow 4. Close-up of farmer weighing milk, tilt up to scale showing weight of milk 5. Close-up of milk farmer making records of milk 6. Close-up of milk farmer's face 7. Pan of milk farmers pouring milk into container; cloth over container acts as filter 8. Wide of exterior of factory at Yili Dairy 9. Close-up of sign reading: (Chinese characters and English) Jinhai Yili Dairy 10. Wide of interior of milk collecting hall at Yili Dairy factory with trucks loaded with milk 11. Close-up of test flask getting milk sample from tank 12. Tilt-up of inspector checking test flask 13. Close-up of inspector shaking test flask to test for melamine 14. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Huang Junfeng, Inspector at Yili Dairy: "The purpose of my inspection here is to avoid some milk collectors adding some other materials into the raw milk during the delivery, and we need to do more tests in order to avoid cheatings." 15. Wide of lab at Yili Dairy 16. Test technician working on computer 17. Mid of testing machines 18. Close-up of flasks containing testing liquid 19. Tilt-down of production line for baby formula 20. Close-up of production line with machine filling containers with milk powder 21. Wide of worker in production line 22. Worker checking baby formula 23. Wide of workers at production line 24. Mid of worker checking bags of baby formula coming off production line 25. Mid of baby formula in bags on conveyer belt 26. Wide of baby formula on conveyor transporting belt 27. Worker checking baby formula in bags STORYLINE: Dairy producers in China's northern Inner Mongolia region are tightening the quality control of raw milk after four children died in a tainted milk scandal that has sparkled global concern about Chinese food imports. China's Health Ministry said in a statement on its website on Wednesday that more than 10-thousand children remain in hospital and eight are in a serious condition after drinking milk powder contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine. Drinking the chemical can lead to kidney stones and possibly life-threatening kidney failure. No new deaths have been recorded, the ministry said. The scandal has so far been blamed for the deaths of four babies and the sickening of about 54-thousand others in China. Chinese dairy suppliers have been accused of adding the chemical, used in products including plastics, paint and adhesives, to watered-down milk to make the product appear rich in protein and fool quality control tests. The effects of the scandal continue to be felt, forcing the government to deal with festering health and public relations issues. China's food exports have increasingly suffered, with more nations issuing import bans. Last month more than five-thousand inspectors were dispatched to dairy factories by the country's food safety watchdog amid increasingly strenuous efforts to restore public trust in milk products. Some dairy farms have also tightened their own quality control. At Yili Dairy in China's Inner Mongolia region inspectors already check milk for contamination but in the wake of the tainted milk scandal they now also check for the chemical melamine. Six people were arrested for tampering with milk in the Inner Mongolian city of Hohhot on Monday. Under Health Ministry guidelines released on Wednesday, melamine is now limited to one part per (m) million for infant formula and 2.5 parts per (m) million for liquid milk, milk powder and food products that contain more than 15 percent milk. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c9a2914239a5173ba5ca1769e9d83987 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork