China Announces Probe Into Milk Powder Debate

China Announces Probe Into Milk Powder DebateChina has announced a probe into claims that milk powder made by a Chinese company resulted in infant girls to grow breasts.

The health department said that a board of nine endocrine, paediatric and food safety specialists, established by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, was straightly looking into the claimed untimely puberty cases.

Parents and physicians in Hubei province reported during the last month that milk powder made by Synutra International caused at least three infant girls to develop breasts.

"Relevant technical organizations" were already probing milk powder samples from the market and from homes of the baby girls, it said.

The health ministry stated that consumers could forward the food they perceived to have quality troubles to inspection agencies for examinations.

But, inspection agencies reserve the right to refuse to check samples from consumers as the origin or history of the samples could be uncertain, it said. (With Inputs from Agencies)