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2 more products found tainted


BY GERARD NAVAL

TWO more products have been found by the Bureau of Food and Drugs positive for melamine.

Lotte B+W Koala biscuit and Lotte chocolate snack Koala biscuit were the fifth and sixth milk and milk products found to contain melamine, an industrial chemical used in the manufacture of plastics.

Melamine-contaminated milk in China has downed some 54,000 persons and killed four infants.

Earlier found tainted with melamine were Lotte Strawberry Snack Koala biscuit, Jollycow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk (more calcium & Vitamin D (1 liter), Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk, and Mengniu Drink.

BFAD cleared 22 other milk and milk products for melamine, bringing the total number of cleared products to 184.

These are Angels First Love Barquillos Fresh Milk Wafer Sticks, Barbecue Candy (MM), Darrys Milk Choco Candy, Golden Fuji Crisp Tomato Flavor Cracker, Golden Fuji Vegetable Flavor Cracker, Houshuang Winter Mint Candy (MM), KZ Gundam Long Candy Lipton Milk Tea (Original Flavor) – Product of Indonesia, Lipton Milk Tea (Vanilla Flavour) – Product of Indonesia, Nice Choice Pineapple Cake, and OO Chocolate Bean Candy;

Sandwich Biscuits (green wrapper, in Chinese character), Sandwich Biscuits (purple wrapper, in Chinese character), Sandwich Biscuits (yellow wrapper, in Chinese character), Sour Lollipop 2in1 (Strawberry, Orange, Pineapple), Sweet Dart 8.8 Butter Ball Candy;

New Zoland Company Omilk Bonbon Yogurt Milk Soft Drops (Grape Flavor), W.L. Sweet Dart Pines Milk Candy, W.L. Sweet Dart Royal Orange Candy, W.L. Yaahoo Cheese Biscuit, Zhongshan Meihua Galletas de Chocola Te Butter with Filling Cake, and Zhongshan Meihua Good Taste Sweet-Smelling and Crisp Biscuits (Nutrition Health Foods).

 

 


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