China has also gained a reputation for food and drug contamination (not to mention lead paint in toys and poisonous toothpaste). For example, in 2008, the industrial chemical melamine was added to milk products in order to give falsely high readings of milk protein, causing the death of six infants and sickening 300,000 other people.
中国还因为食品及药品污染事件而名扬海外（用含铅油漆生产的玩具和有毒牙膏自不必多言）。比方说2008年发生过在奶制品中添加工业化学物质三聚氰胺，以此来伪造奶制品中的蛋白质含量。这起事件导致6名婴儿死亡，另外300，000人因此而患病。