Okay, stop drinking milk now, all of you, or anything that has any form of dairy content in it — unless it comes from some foreign brand. While four babies have already died from Sanlu's tainted milk powder, and over 6,000 remain sick (including over 150 critically ill), the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has now announced that liquid milk sold by three top Chinese producers has also been found to be tainted with melamine. From AP:
A report posted on the agency's Web site said test results show nearly 10 per cent of samples taken from Mengniu Dairy Group and Yili Industrial Group - China's two largest dairy companies - contained up to 8.4 milligrammes of melamine per kilogramme.Milk from Shanghai-based Bright Dairy also shows melamine contamination.
'AQSIQ will strictly find out the reason for adding the melamine and severely punish those who are responsible,' the notice said.
It said all the batches that tested positive were being recalled.
Almost immediately, Starbucks China announced that it would stop working with Mengniu with immediate effect and find alternate milk suppliers:
STARBUCKS on Thursday said its 300-plus cafes in mainland China have pulled out milk supplies by Mengniu Dairy, one of the companies whose product has tested positive for melamine contamination.Meanwhile, AP reports that Hong Kong has recalled all products produced by Yili:Starbucks said that no employees or customers were sickened by the milk.
In a statement, Starbucks said it removed the milk from supplies voluntarily after it learned that Mengniu had confirmed that certain lots of its liquid milk were tainted.
'Though we believe based on assurances from the supplier that the milk we received from Mengniu is not included in the contaminated lot, due to the serious nature of this warning, Starbucks has voluntarily pulled all Mengniu milk offerings until further notice,' Starbucks said.
Starbucks said it continues to work closely with Mengniu to further confirm that the milk it supplied to the company was not affected.
The company said it is working to find alternate milk suppliers until the issue is resolved.
The recall covers milk, yogurt, ice cream and all other products made by Yili Industrial Group and distributed in Hong Kong, Ms Constance Chan, controller for the territory's Food Safety Centre, said on Thursday.'I call on the public not to consume any products of this brand,' Ms Chan said, adding that the government has asked the company to stop supplying products in Hong Kong.
The government found the banned industrial chemical melamine in eight of 30 sample products tested by regulators in Hong Kong, said Ms Chan.
The products include milk and ice cream bars coming from two production lines.
Yili expressed its 'deep regret for any distress' caused to Hong Kong consumers in a statement issued on late Thursday.
The company said it was investigating the contamination of its products and working with government authorities to find out the source.
It was the second time Hong Kong food inspectors called back Yili products.
On Tuesday, one sample of a yogurt-flavoured ice bar was found to contain melamine.
The chemical has been discovered in milk powder that has killed up to four babies and sickened 6,200 others in mainland China. There have been no reports of infants sickened by milk powder in Hong Kong.
Yili, one of the mainland's two biggest dairies, was among companies forced to recall baby formula in China on Wednesday in the widening scandal.
So far, all the sick infants in China were found to have consumed milk powder produced by another company.
Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang said the government will order further recalls of any Chinese dairy products if they are found dangerous to health.
'We will closely monitor dairy imports from China. We will fully sample these products and test them independently,' Mr Tsang said.
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Hong Kong tests yesterday revealed 9 Yili products contaminated. Over 30 Mengniu milk products were tested today and cleared with no melanine contamination. That's good news, because it means I can continue to drink my favorite milk by Mengniu (since I have quite a few cartons stored up). Can't drink those Oz/NZ milk which have no taste. French and Japanese milk OK too. But US, Oz and New Zealand milk sucks.
This is called
You reap what you sow.....Now everyone shuns business with bad companies.
Hey,chaps!Got milk today?
I call shenanigans. BBC1 can't afford imported milk. Not unless he's getting his wu mao from Mengniu.
wowwowwow, out here in HKG, Mengniu is more expensive than Aussie and NZ brands. Why? Because Aussie and NZ milk sucks, and Japanese milk cost thru the roof. LOL! If the HK government says it's good, I trust them. Afterall, they did point Yili out.;)
wowwowwow, out here in HKG, we don't work for wumao. LMAO! Maybe you get paid that kind of amount a day in your country.
A lot of Chinese people today really devalues human life.
The people who spiked the milk with poison for profit should be executed. KILL THEM ALL! KILL THEM ALL
Can't agree with you more booqqerq. Get rid of all the vermins to purify the motherland.
Yes, shoot the pests and hang the Head of the Food Administration.
Meanwhile, I can still drink my Mengniu from HK stocks.
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/080920/4/8bbs.html
陳漢儀：蒙牛有不同生產線
(明報)9月20日 星期六 11:50
食物安全專員陳漢儀表示，內地驗出蒙牛產品有三聚氰胺，但香港沒有，可能是有不同生產線。
她指，蒙牛已承諾加強供港產品的質量監控。當局並已要求生產商交代奶品受污染原因，日後亦要證明產品不含三聚氰胺才可入口。
Let the purge begins. Fire all the imcompetent officials responsible for the mess.
Life imprisonment to the sub-human scums who put tainted milk in the market. Avenge for the dead babies.
Prohibit the use/import of Melamine.
Now if only the government would start to look into the high levels of toxins in fish farming, the 'cleanliness' inside a lot of Chinese kitchens, and the dangers of smoking... step by step, rock by rock, across the river we go...
Just goes to show what a horrific pile of shit Chinese companies, the Chinese gov't and the nation of China is. Permanent deconstruction is the only answer.
To nanheyangrouchuan
--"Permanent deconstruction is the only answer"?
Your step-dad sure will listen to you and go liberate China, since they have WMD too!
i agree
-- the permanent deconstruction of NANHEYANGROUCHUAN.
i am in Shanghai, it is reported Bright milk is safe here. so i trust.
do not go panic. everything will be fine soon.
but, i donot like the comments when CNN reported this news. as a news agent (who called themselve most trusted media???) during news presenting, the news presenter should only say the fact, and fact only. To make any irresponsible comments, is a very unprofessional behavior!!
bamboos, look at your own laughable media first.
While it is shameful and criminal that the government and the companies involved did not heed warnings or provide any oversight and allowed this problem to become such a catastrophe, the ultimate blame lies with the milk suppliers who added the chemical to their milk in order to boost their own profits. They knowingly sacrificed the life and health of thousands of people for their own greed. Shameful!