More and more international and Chinese brands are getting embroiled in the tainted milk scandal. Latest news from the Straits Times:
SOUTH Korea's food watchdog said on Tuesday that two more snacks imported from China were contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine, bringing the number of tainted brands discovered locally to six.Lipton's milk tea powder has also been recalled in Hong Kong and Macau:The products are Ritz Cracker Sandwiches Cheese, produced by Nabisco Food Suzhou Co, and Savory Rice Crackers from Danyang Day Bright Foods Co, said the Korea Food and Drug Administration.
Traces of melamine were previously detected in 'Misarang Custard' and 'Misarang Coconut' cakes, which were manufactured in China and sold by South Korea's Haitai Confectionery and Food Co.
The two other brands are Milk Rusk biscuits and Vegetable Creamer.
Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever said Tuesday it has started recalling some of its Lipton-brand milk tea powder in Hong Kong and Macau after they were found to contain traces of an industrial chemical.The recall of four batches of Lipton's 3-in-1 milk tea powder came after the company's internal quality check found melamine in the products, Unilever Hong Kong Ltd said in a statement.
The contaminated products used Chinese-made milk powder as raw material, said marketing director Sharon Hwang for Unilever Hong Kong. She declined to reveal which Chinese brand the company had used.
'In order to comply with local regulations and as a precautionary measure, we are recalling all packs produced ... from Hong Kong and Macau markets,' the statement said.
Last week, Unilever has also removed Lipton Green Milk Tea from the Taiwan market because the product used Chinese-made milk.
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South Korean health authorities also report: Traces of melamine in New Zealand milk products
Radio Netherlands, Netherlands
02 October 2008
South Korean health authorities report that traces of melamine have been discovered in milk products from New Zealand. They were found in lactoferrin which is added to baby milk.
The New Zealand company Tatua has stopped the export of lactoferrin and is investigating how its product was contaminated with melamine. The company says that a New Zealand health investigation has concluded that the contamination was minuscule.
Melamine was recently found to have been added to baby milk in China. Up to now, four babies have died as a result and thousands have become ill.
You see: China has the highest standards and no babies got sick and died because some melamine was found in products from other countries. As a Chinese, this kind of information really helps me get over my inferiority complex vis-a-vis white people.
Thanks for changing the topic, eastman! You saved our national pride again!
To Buck Rogerz,
How come you are so predictable and cannot wait to be tested.
Ever heard of Fonterra CEO Mr Ferrier's words like "of course I wish we could have detected such an atrocious, abomination of milk. This was a criminal contamination of milk. We'll always ask ourselves was there a way we could have caught this; was there a way San Lu could have caught it? But to our knowledge there isn't a dairy company in the world that tests for this stuff." Have I caught more of the report about his speech? No.
In 2004, US-based Heinz recalled its infant formula which had caused the deaths of three infants and many ill with analysis showing that Vitamin B1 had not been added to the formula, resulting in encephalopathy. Had anybody connected it to US governement and any governer resigned as responsible? No.
Hypocrate double standard is all west media have, though you suddenly become a Chinese.
Whenever it comes to China, same things become different. True psyco reason behind is clear: China could be accepted as dirty as Nepale, as toxin as India, as oppressive as Saudi, but never be allowed to be so strong in so quickly a time since it costs you sleepless night out of jealousy and fear.
BTW, Koreans not only found the melamine in NZ milk as I posted above, but also eat more dog-meat than CHinese, lol!
That's great! No dead babies!
The brand of milk in SK may have been from NZ, but no doubt it was made in the world's junkyard known as China.
To nanheyangrouchuan,
Read my first post word by word, or simply go pick up balls, you bucket boy.
China bashing, China bashing. Its all end products of jealousy and fear of the peaceful rise of China. Relax men, China don't raise war on other countries. lol.
I hope this has a tangible effect on Chinese mentality and governance. China's peaceful rise is only as peaceful as its fist allows it to be. Once the fist is strong enough, China will no doubt become an aggressive nation, eager to overcome its inferiority complex and prove its priapic patriotism to be as ponderous and blind as any other nation's (USA?) Taking into account how very little care Chinese pay to each other's lives, it's hard to make the case that they will stick to the "peaceful rise" paradigm once their weapons become sophisticated enough to take on major powers. If the life of a Chinese person is already so cheap to another Chinese, why on Earth would they view foreign lives as any more valuable? Hopefully cooler heads prevail, but China's atavistic, alienated one-child generation gnashes its teeth with alarming ferocity at the slightest provocation, so cooler heads? Slim chances....