China: Bankrupt Purveyor of Contaminated Milk Is Sold.

SANLU The Sanlu Group, the most prominent of 22 Chinese dairy companies that sold contaminated dairy products, was bought at auction on Wednesday for $90.3 million by the Beijing Sanyuan Group Company, according to Xinhua, the official news agency. The companies sold dairy products like infant formula that were contaminated with melamine, a chemical that made the protein content appear higher. The products were blamed for making hundreds of thousands of children ill and killing six. The scandal forced Sanlu into bankruptcy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]