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China says 10,700 children in hospital over milk

BEIJING (Reuters) - Nearly 10,700 Chinese infants and children were still in hospital after drinking toxic milk and milk formula, China said on Thursday, but urged foreign customers to take a "scientific" approach to the safety of its products.

The country is still wrestling with a tainted milk scandal that has killed four babies, made tens of thousands more ill and affected products around the world.

But it has rushed to assure buyers abroad and at home that the government is back in control and has closed the loopholes that allowed the industrial chemical melamine, used in making plastics and in pesticides, to get into milk.... [more]