This time for babies:

In August, Sanlu’s testing “revealed melamine in the baby milk powder and showed that it was contaminated,” the ministry statement said. It did not say when Sanlu alerted authorities about its findings. On Thursday, the dairy announced a recall of 700 tons of formula made before Aug. 6.

A New Zealand dairy cooperative that owns part of Sanlu said Friday it believed none of the tainted powder was exported.

Kidney problems in infants were reported as early as mid-July but authorities failed to launch a food safety investigation, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Another news report said the dairy received complaints as early as March.  Read more 

Through the magic of the unregulated marketplace:

A meat supplier has greatly expanded a ground beef recall, which now includes about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat that may be contaminated with E. coli.

Goldman said that none of the latest batch of suspect beef is in stores now because the product would be well past its expiration date, but consumers may still have some of the meat at home.

“It is important for consumers to look in their freezers,” Goldman said.

Wow, just in time for the summer grilling season, too!

So run, don’t walk, to the nearest, er, phone:  Read more 

Molly Ivins dings another one out of the park. Via Chicago Tribune:

I’m not attempting to make this a partisan deal—only 73 percent of Enron’s political donations went to Republicans. But I’ll be damned if Enron’s No. 1 show-pony politician, George W. Bush, should be allowed to walk away from this. Ken Lay gave $139,500 to Bush over the years. He chipped in $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Fund in 2000 and $10,000 to the Bush-Cheney Recount Fund. [snip] Until January 2004, Enron was Bush’s top contributor.  Read more