BEIJING: Anxious parents rushed their babies for medical check-ups around China yesterday, worried and confused over what to feed their babies amid a growing scandal over tainted milk powder.

'I don't know. I really don't know,' said Ms An Fengyun, a 34-year-old mother, when asked what she would feed her two-year-old daughter, who whined in her mother's arms for an overdue lunch.

In north-western Gansu province, where the scandal first broke, some parents were turning to goat's milk to feed smaller children, said Mr Qi Yunzhong, a school teacher in the city of Wuwei. 'The bigger kids are just eating rice,' he added.

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