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A wholesaler displays eggs from mainland China at a market in Hong Kong
27 Oct 2008
Source: Reuters
 
A wholesaler displays eggs from mainland China at a wholesale market in Hong Kong October 27, 2008. Hong Kong, a city in southern China, has asked Beijing to investigate how melamine, an industrial chemical found in tainted milk formula, turned up in Chinese chicken eggs, newspapers said on Monday. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA)
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Customers buy eggs at a supermarket in Xiangfan, Hubei province October 31, 2008. Hong Kong has detected melamine in yet another batch of chicken eggs from mainland China, the third such ...


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