周日，内蒙古蒙牛乳业有限公司在其官方网站发表声明说，食品安检人员在该公司位于中国西南四川省的分公司所生产的一批次牛奶中，检出一种致癌物质——黄曲霉素。

The Inner Mongolia-based dairy producer said in a statement on its website Sunday that it destroyed hazardous products at a plant in China's southwestern Sichuan province after g...

The Inner Mongolia-based dairy producer said in a statement on its website Sunday that it destroyed hazardous products at a plant in China's southwestern Sichuan province after government safety inspectors found a batch of its milk contained the chemical aflatoxin, a cancer-causing toxin.

周日，内蒙古蒙牛乳业有限公司在其官方网站发表声明说，食品安检人员在该公司位于中国西南四川省的分公司所生产的一批次牛奶中，检出一种致癌物质——黄曲霉素。

"Mengniu would like to express our sincere apologies to consumers," the statement said, adding that it destroyed all batches of the milk before it reached shop shelves.

声明表示，“蒙牛向全国消费者郑重道歉”，并且宣称公司已经赶在问题产品进入市场前，将该批次的所有产品进行了销毁。

The company's spokeswoman couldn't be reached for comment.

公司的发言人并没有对此事件作当面回应。

The incident comes as China's dairy industry is rebuilding itself after consumer confidence was shattered in 2008, when the industrial chemical melamine was added to milk products and caused the deaths of six infants and illnesses in 300,000 others.

中国消费者对乳制品的信心曾在2008年遭受重创。当时，工业用的三聚氰胺被添加进了婴儿奶粉中，造成了6例死亡和30万患病的严重事故。正当中国乳业试图重建消费者信心的时候，蒙牛又暴露出类似问题。

Mengniu was among the companies found to be at fault in the 2008 scandal. Government testers found traces of the toxic chemical melamine in nearly 10% of the milk samples tested from Mengniu and rival Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group. The two companies were among 22 producers whose baby formula was found to contain melamine.

在2008年的三聚氰胺事故中，蒙牛就曾卷入其中。质检人员在来自于蒙牛及同处内蒙的竞争对手伊利集团的抽检牛奶样品中发现，有近10%的牛奶检出了有毒的三聚氰胺化合物。这两家公司均是当时检出三聚氰胺的22家问题企业之一。

Yili wasn't named by authorities in their disclosures over the weekend. But in a sign that a cloud continues to hang over the industry as a whole, its Shanghai-listed shares ended down 5.4% to 19.79 yuan (US$3.13) Monday. A company spokeswoman declined to comment.

在此次质检部门发布的抽检报告中，伊利虽然并在其列。但是有迹象表明，整个乳制品行业均难逃蒙牛事件的恶劣影响，伊利上海股份周一跌至19.79元（约合3.13美元），下滑了5.4%。伊利还未就此发表评论。

Mengniu's shares last traded Friday at 26.50 Hong Kong dollars ($3.41). Hong Kong's stock exchange is closed for holidays Monday and Tuesday.

蒙牛上周五在香港的股份以26.5港元（约合3.41美元）收盘。本周一和周二，因逢假期，香港证券交易所将休市两天。

Mengniu has regained faith with Chinese consumers since 2008, according to a recent report from research agency Millward Brown and media company WPP on the top 50 most valuable Chinese brands. Mengniu ranked 18th this year and its brand was valued at $3.4 billion, up 66% from 2010.

华通明略咨询公司（Millward Brown）和WPP传播集团在其最新发布的调查报告中宣称，继2008年之后，蒙牛已经重新赢得了中国消费者的信心。蒙牛在今年“中国最具价值的商业品牌50强”评选中位列18，品牌总价值达34亿美元，比2010年上涨了66%。

China's government this year has prioritized cleaning up the country's milk industry in a push to usher in a new era of consumer safety. China ordered half of its dairy producers to close shop earlier this year, pulling operating licenses from 400-plus dairy producers and suspending operations of others, after a nationwide inspection sweep from China's top quality-control body, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

今年，中国政府着力整顿全国乳制品行业，以推动食品安全进入新的纪元。在今年上半年，中国最高质检机关，国家质量监督检验检疫总局，曾对全国的乳业企业展开清查。结果仅有400余家企业通过了审查获得了生产许可，剩下的统统责令停产整改，约有半数的乳制品企业已经关门停产。