China wants to make bricks from toxic milk: report
November 11, 2008
A baby takes a drink as he waits outside a children's hospital in Beijing in late September. A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media has reported.
A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media reported Tuesday.
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