Shanghaiist: Around Shanghai: Real estate jitters, food safety and that recent chemical leak

taihanasie

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:01:45 +0800

I am sure this is easy to look up online. Note that it was found in both Mengniu and Yili boxed milk. That knocks out most of the milk sold on the shelves of most Chinese supermarkets. If you add to that the products that are made with Mengniu or Yili milk, that knocks out all other "milk drinks". Yogurts have also been affected. Taiwan has banned milk products from China. Hong Kong has removed all Yili and Mengniu brand products from the shelves. Then there are all of the smaller mfgrs. And let's not forget Sanlu. Basically, if you want to avoid drinking melamine, you should just avoid anything that is made with milk or milk powder, unless you want to shell out the big bucks for foreign-made goods. I have read some interesting things in the last few days: one article that made a big deal about the fact that adults would probably not be affected by the melamine (not reassuring) and another that said that Yili and Mengniu have slashed the prices of their milk drinks to get people to buy them (also not reassuring). Personally, I wonder how long this will go on. This is way past the point where covering it up, is possible. A few firings, fines and jail sentences also can't make things better either. When so many brands, large and small, are independently involved it is hard for anyone to deny that a huge problem exists. It is also impossible to take the reassurances following the spate of quality complaints from last summer seriously.

Bsta1382

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:53:02 +0800

Does anyone know of a list of the 22 Chinese Brands and/or the products that have been confirmed as being affected by the contaminated milk powder. Aside from Yili's Yougurt Ice Bar, I haven't seen anything other then milk powder being talked about. Anyone aware of any cheese, liquid milk, ice cream, yogurt being affected?

taihanasie

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:12:45 +0800

"Shanghai's Food and Drug Administration has announced that residents here "will be able to trace the farms where their eggs came from and what the chickens were fed" starting from next year." ...assuming the farmers all tell the truth about what they fed the chickens, no distributors embellish or falsify data, nobody is paid a bribe to keep the records straight and all oversight goes according to planned. I wonder how many Chinese people will be at ease after hearing this piece of news from Shanghai's FDA.