中国一家法庭宣布处在毒牛奶丑闻中心的三鹿牛奶公司破产。河北省的一家地方法院已经指派承接人来管理公司的资产并偿付债权人。
三鹿公司是第一个被发现销售受工业化学品三聚氰胺污染的产品的牛奶制造商。今年9月爆出了这一丑闻。三鹿和大约20家中国公司的受污染牛奶造成大约30万儿童患病，6人死亡。
如果食入过量的三聚氰胺，会导致肾结石，受污染的牛奶喂养的婴儿受到的危害最大。三鹿公司的主要外国投资商新西兰的恒天然集团说，三鹿集团由于三聚氰胺污染危机而债台高筑。
A Chinese court has declared bankrupt the dairy company at the center of China’s tainted milk scandal. A local court (Shihjiazhuang) in China’s Hebei province has assigned a receiver to manage the company’s assets and repay its debtors.
Sanlu was the first milk manufacturer found to be selling products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine when the scandal surfaced in September. Tainted milk from Sanlu and some 20 other Chinese companies sickened nearly 300-thousand children and killed six.
Melamine can cause kidney stones if taken in excessive levels, and babies who were fed tainted milk powder were the most widely affected. The company’s major foreign investor, New Zealand’s Fonterra Group, says the Sanlu Group was facing mounting debts as a result of the melamine contamination crisis.