A Chinese couple buy yogurt at a supermarket in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, officials said, as the government released its first rules on allowable levels of the chemical blamed in the ailments. (AP Photo) By TINI TRAN Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - China's State Council tightened quality control regulations for the dairy industry Friday, as authorities in Macau and Hong Kong reported several children had kidney stones blamed on Chinese tainted milk. Contaminated milk powder, laced with the industrial chemical melamine, has been blamed for causing the deaths of four infants and sickening more than 54,000 others. More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized with eight of them in...
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