Six more detained over melamine

Police have detained six more people in the country's contaminated milk scandal amid increasing efforts to restore public trust in domestic dairy products.

The suspects were caught in Hohhot in the country's main dairy-producing area of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after allegedly selling and mixing the industrial chemical melamine into raw milk, the city government said in a notice on its website yesterday.

The detentions were made during an investigation into melamine contamination at Yili and Mengniu, two top-selling dairy companies based in the region, the notice said.