China Delays in Milk Scandal `Deliberate,' WHO Says
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China, embroiled in a tainted milk scandal that led to the deaths of four babies and sickened 53,000, suffered from a ``deliberate failure'' to report the contamination, the World Health Organization said today.
``This incident was aggravated by delays in reporting at a number of sources,'' Hans Troedsson, WHO's China representative, told reporters in Beijing today. ``These delays were probably a combination of ignorance and deliberate failure to report.''