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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A Chinese court has declared bankrupt the company at the center of a scandal over tainted milk — blamed for killing six children and sickening almost 300,000 more, one of the company’s owners said today.
New Zealand’s Fonterra Group said that a court in Shijiazhuang, in China’s Hebei province, issued a bankruptcy order against Sanlu Group Co. in response to a petition from a creditor.
Sanlu was one of 22 Chinese dairy companies whose products were found to contain high levels of the industrial chemical melamine, leading to the deaths of six babies and causing 294,000 others to suffer urinary problems.
Fonterra, a New Zealand farmer-owned cooperative, owns 43 percent of Sanlu.
