Panda executives stand trial over melamine milk

SHANGHAI: Three executives from the company that allegedly sold recycled melamine-tainted milk products last year went on trial yesterday, facing charges that could result in death sentences.

The executives from Shanghai Panda Dairy Co Ltd were charged by the Shanghai Fengxian district prosecutors' office with producing and selling toxic food, a charge that has a maximum penalty of death.

The milk products were left over from the 2008 tainted milk powder scandal, which killed at least six babies and sickened 300,000.