| Abstract | The irony must go down about as smoothly for Winston Lo Yau Lai as a tainted box of soymilk. His father, who died in May, founded Hong Kong's Vitasoy international in 1940 on the laudable notion that a soybean-based drink could provide children a nutritious, low-cost source of protein. The company is known for its clean and safe plants, even in China, where some Hong Kong firms have been accused of setting up sweatshops and firetraps. It is a profitable operation backed up by a solid base of institutional investors. Now, family-run Vitasoy is seeing its carefully tended image assaulted by microbes so tiny that 20 trillion of them weigh less than an ounce. |
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