Melamine is an organic base with the chemical formula C3H6N6, which IUPAC name is 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine. Ingestion of melamine may lead to reproductive damage, or bladder or kidney stones, which can lead to bladder cancer.
As a leading company, I believe Sanlu has quality control team for the production process control and incoming inspection. In the case, the problem came from the source which was dosed with melamine by raw milk suppliers. It aimed to cheat the quality control test for milk protein content. It broke the trust between manufacturer and supplier! In my point of view, quality is not only concerned as a tool for achieving the requirement of product, but also a culture to change the human behavior. If every one disciplines in quality way, the world will truly be “Out of Crisis” (Deming’s Book). Therefore, quality education is very important in China. Recently, I have found a degree course entitled “Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Total Quality Engineering (BETQE)” offered by City University of Hong Kong. I wish it will success and more quality professionals will be developed.
For more information, please visit
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem-mbe/prg-betqe.htm
I don't quite believe that the root cause of the incident is from those raw milk providers. If so, it cannot explain why there are some high-end products (e.g. those for Olympic) will have no problem. Those raw milk providers have no control on where their milks will finally go to. It implies that there are some higher level person / parties involved which has the power to control the destination of the milk.
回覆刪除For the course of CityU that you mentioned, I heard it months before . I also heard that some guys in HKIE queued about whether the course have sufficient 'Engineering' contents for obtaining the HKIE accreditation as it is quite unusual to have a quality management undergraduate course. It is more common to have it in master level. I also noted that the course is still not listed as the recognized course in HKIE website yet. Just for your information.