在去年中国爆发的毒奶粉风波中首当其冲的奶品公司被正式宣布破产。据中国官方的新华社报导，河北省石家庄市的一家法院正式接受了三鹿集团12月份提出的破产申请。
三鹿是22家中国公司被发现在市场上销售了有毒奶制品的第一家公司，这些奶制品当中都被添加了有毒化学物质三聚氰安、以便提高蛋白含量。有毒奶制品使得将近30万儿童患病，还造成至少6名儿童死亡。
三鹿集团的前总裁田文华因涉案而在上个月被判处无期徒刑。该公司的另外6位主管人员分别被判处4到15年的徒刑。
The Chinese dairy company at the heart of last year’s tainted milk scandal has been formally declared bankrupt. China’s official Xinhua news agency says a court in northern Hebei province’s Shijiazhuang city accepted a petition filed by Sanlu Group in December.
Sanlu was the first of 22 dairies revealed to have sold milk and milk products laced with the industrial chemical melamine, which was used to artificially boost the products’ protein levels. The tainted products sickened almost 300,000 children and killed six infants.
The former head of Sanlu Group, Tian Wenhua, was sentenced to life in prison last month in connection with the scandal. Six other Sanlu executives were sentenced from five to 15 years in prison over the scandal.