"FDA Alerts Consumers Not to Feed Infants Chinese Infant Formula 
July 9, 2004.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to feed their
infants infant formula from China because the safety and nutritional
adequacy of infant formula from China is unknown. Recently, infant formula
from China ... was found for sale in an Asian retail market in New York. 

"... the analysis of certain [Chinese infant] formulas by the New York State
Department of Agriculture and Markets food laboratory found the formula to
contain less than 1/7 of the federally required minimal amount of protein
per serving, approximately 1/4 the required amount of fat and only minute
amounts of declared calcium and magnesium. There is no guarantee that this
product, as a potential sole source of nutrition, would provide adequate
nutrients for an infant. Consumption by infants, under conditions of use
described on the label and labeling, could result in outcomes including
severe illness or death."
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/answers/2004/ANS01299.html

"Wu, [a] mother who lost her baby [in China], recalls feeling comforted by
the TV ad campaign for Golden Partner milk powder showing fat, healthy
babies. 
    "I naturally assumed my baby would be well fed by drinking it as well,"
she said. "These companies are criminal." 
    An analysis has found the actual ingredients to be starch, flour and
sugar." By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times  
    
And it seems that it wasn't even clean flour:

"And finally the most important news about fake products surfacing in April
was reported by Oriental Morning in Shanghai. A tragic exposé on a low
quality infant formula that killed dozens of infants and harmed hundreds
since 2003 was the first of several similar stories that followed. 30
percent of Guangzhou City-produced baby formula does not meet nutritional
standards; Xian City found baby formula with small amounts of lethal toxins;
19 different baby formula brands from Tangshan City that supplied 11
provinces in China did not meet nutritional standards; Beijing shut down
four dehydrated-milk factories; three underground baby formula factories in
Buyang City were discovered and shut down after more than 1.35 million units
of bad product had been sold and distributed."
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-7-14/22390.html

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