Stay away from Chinese milk products!

[Gumusut_Amige]

how sure are we na yun mga restos/blended drinks kiosks and bars/cakes and pastries stores hindi gumagamit ng Made in China milk from the start? syempre, pag pampatipid ng overhead, gagamitin at gagamitin yan for profit.

so will this milk scare extend to every shop/store na with dairy products? mukang dun patungo ah ... baka pati yun mga gumagawa ng native pastillas sa probinsya tapos dinadala dito gumagamit din ng ganyan gatas since mas lalo hindi controlled dun

gamit yata ay gatas ng kalabaw! kaya nga medyo lumakas ang demand sa ngayon.

how about other chinese food products, eg. noodles, honey etc. are they safe to consume?

[Monseratto]

Now eggs from China have melamine... and poor Juan de la Cruz is guilty of adding it too!

Hong Kong expands tests after egg scare

HONG KONG, China (AP) -- The discovery of excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs has prompted the Hong Kong authorities to expand health tests to include meat products imported from China, a senior official said Sunday.

The move follows the announcement late Saturday that Hong Kong testers had found 4.7 parts per million of melamine in imported eggs produced by a division of China's Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group. The legal limit for melamine in foodstuffs in Hong Kong is 2.5 ppm.

Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow said the melamine may have come from feed given to the chickens that laid the eggs. "The preliminary opinion experts have given us is that there is a problem with the (chicken) feed," Chow told reporters Saturday.

The egg results have prompted officials to expand food testing to meat imports from China, Chow told reporters Sunday.

The Hong Kong government also said it found excessive amounts of melamine in Blueberry Cream Sandwich crackers made by Philippine company Croley Foods MFG. Corp.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/as...ef=mpstoryview

[claRkEnt]

^ that's SUNFLOWER crackers according to news.

[Monseratto]

Yep...BFAD advise everyone to avoid SUNFLOWER branded biscuits.

I hope no one won't get the idea that all Philippine-made biscuit have melamine...

BFAD to public: Don't eat tainted biscuit brand

MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) will re-test a Philippine-made biscuit product that was found positive for melamine in Hong Kong last weekend.

In a radio interview, BFAD director Leticia Gutierrez on Monday said she ordered BFAD agents to gather samples of Sunflower Crackers Blueberry Cream Sandwich from markets and from the manufacturer for the re-test.

This, as the official advised the public to avoid consuming the product, pending results of the test.

Last Saturday, Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) disclosed a Philippine-made biscuit product tested positive for melamine.

The CFS website said Croley Foods Sunflower Crackers (Blueberry Cream Sandwich) was found to contain 3.2 parts per million (ppm) melamine.

"We have informed the food trade of the test results and asked them to stop selling the products with unsatisfactory results. We have also sent warning letters to the retailers and the importers concerned. The CFS will take out prosecution if there is sufficient evidence," it
said in a press statement.

The sample tested was a big pack (270 grams) containing 10 small individual packs, with expiry date Dec. 5, 2008. The level of melamine detected was 3.2 ppm.

CFS said the Philippine-made biscuit product was one of two food products found "unsatisfactory" during tests for melamine.

The other was Select Fresh Brown Eggs (Extra Large, 6 Pieces, with Expiry Date: Oct. 25, 2008). The level of melamine detected was 4.7ppm.

Under Hong Kong's Harmful Substances in Food (Amendment) Regulation 2008, the legal limit for melamine in the concerned products is 2.5ppm.

On the other hand, the CFS said the US Food and Drug Administration said the safety reference value (tolerable daily intake) for melamine is 0.63mg per kg of body weight per day.

For children under the age of three years, who are more sensitive to melamine, the TDI for melamine is 0.32mg per kg of body weight per day.

"On the sample of 'Croley Foods Sunflower Crackers (Blueberry Cream Sandwich)' which was detected with a melamine level of 3.2 ppm, the spokesman said a child weighing 10kg (about three years old) would have to eat about 1kg (about 4 big packs, i.e. 37 small individual
packs) of the product a day to reach the TDI. An adult with average body weight of 60kg would need to consume about 11.81kg (about 44 big packs, i.e. 437 small individual packs) of the product a day before reaching the TDI," the CFS said.

"Based on the levels detected, people are advised to stop consuming the products concerned," the CFS spokesman added. - GMANews.TV

[Zeus]

Yep...BFAD advise everyone to avoid SUNFLOWER branded biscuits.

I hope no one won't get the idea that all Philippine-made biscuit have melamine...

Naku iyan pa naman palagi merienda ng mother at father ko

[swordsman]

So ano kaya mangyayari sa mga companies na 'to whose products have been found to have Melamine? Ganun ganun na lang ba, na wag na lang bilhin produkto nila? Wala pa yatang napa-firing squad sa kanila sa China?

[Zeus]

So ano kaya mangyayari sa mga companies na 'to whose products have been found to have Melamine? Ganun ganun na lang ba, na wag na lang bilhin produkto nila? Wala pa yatang napa-firing squad sa kanila sa China?

3 yata ang nahatulang mabitay at ilan habang buhay mabilanggo ayon sa balita

[eye-eye]

up to the present dami pa din gumagamit milk na may melamine content mga puslit na gatas from china ginagamit sa mga paggawa ng pastillas which are ussually sold sa mga maliliit na stores na karamihan bumibili ay ang mga bata nabebenta kalimitan sa mga malapit sa schools kaya kalimitang nabibiktima ay mga bata, at ang mga gawang pastillas ay gawa-gawa lang sa tabi-tabi at napakaruming paligid karamihang pagawaan ay sa tabing ilog na marumi sa tondo lapit sa divisoria, mag-ingat sa pastillas.