date:Aug 20, 2014
are relatively common in China with Yum, retailer Wal-Mart and French dairy Danone SA all taking a hit in the last year over food safety concerns.
Chinese parents are already highly sensitive to metal contamination in food, which is often linked to the country's high levels of soil and water pollution, one of the main ways metals gets into cereals and other crops.
Analysts said the presence of lead - widely known by parents to be harmful for children - would create a scare factor even if no p