The Chinese health Ministry had reported the death of one more infant on Monday. The authorities however failed to give any details about the death.

Earlier last week, one infant had died from kidney stones in the northwest Gansu Province of Xinhua. Due to the expanding food safety scandal in the country, nearly 500 babies have been reported sick by the tainted formula within a period of few days. Out of these nearly 102 belong to northwest region of Gansu alone.

According to a report published by Xinhua news agency the second infant died due to the contaminated infant milk powder, manufactured by the Sanlu Group, based in the northwest region of Gansu province. The police had so far arrested two traders for selling up to 3 tonnes of contaminated milk.

Speaking on this, Mao Shoulong, a public policy expert at Renmin University, Beijing said, "Demand for milk products has been growing in China, but China lacks the safety capacity of developed countries.”

"Until safety measures catch up with the scale of the market, we can expect problems like this for a vulnerable product such as milk powder”, he added.

The death of these two infants has revitalized the depressing memories of the fake milk powder scandal of 2004 which killed nearly 13 babies in eastern China.