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BEIJING — Six Chinese suspects went on trial Friday, accused of making and selling the industrial chemical at the center of a tainted-milk scandal blamed for killing six children and sickening nearly 300,000 others.
Among those in court Friday was the owner of a workshop that was allegedly the country’s largest source of melamine, the substance responsible for the health crisis that also saw Chinese food products pulled from stores worldwide, state media said.
Police say Zhang Yujun, 40, ran a workshop that manufactured and sold a “protein powder” composed mainly of melamine and malt dextrin, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The powder was added to watered-down milk to make it appear higher in protein content.
