March 23, 2011 6:08 PM

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China sentences 4 people to jail for selling melamine-tainted dairy products

In China, four people have received jail sentences for selling and producing melamine-tainted dairy products in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The Linwei District Court said in a statement on Wednesday that the former manager of Lekang Dairy Company in Weinan city was sentenced to five years in jail and fined 500,000 yuan. The statement said two Deputy Managers of the dairy firm Zhu Shuming in charge of production and marketing, were sentenced to four years and fined 250,000 yuan each. A local dairy dealer, received a two-and-a-half year jail term and was fined 150,000 yuan for selling tainted milk powder to the dairy firm. The distribution of melamine-laced milk products in 2008 killed at least six infants and sickened 300,000 children across the country.

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