China milk?

So, you thought China is only the country and only Brand whom uses melamine in milk? Think again!
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1 October 2008

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's food safety agency has found the industrial chemical melamine in a Japanese brand's Chinese-made cheesecake, it said Wednesday.

The chemical was found in a sample of Lotte Cream Cheese Cake manufactured by Japan's Lotte China Foods Co. Ltd. in mainland China, the Centre for Food Safety said in a statement.

It is the second time the Hong Kong authorities have detected the chemical, which is used to make plastics and fertilizers, in Lotte's products. Last week, the agency and its counterparts in Macau separately found high level of melamine in the company's popular Koala's March chocolate and strawberry cream cookies.

Calls to Lotte China Foods' office in Beijing went unanswered Wednesday as China is celebrating its National Day with a weeklong holiday.

The center said the amount of melamine in Lotte's cheesecake exceeded the city's legal limit by 0.9 parts per million. Hong Kong set the safe level at 2.5 ppm.

Based on the level detected, the public is advised to stop consuming the product concerned," a spokesman said in the statement.

Baby formula containing melamine has been blamed for killing four babies and sickening more than 50,000 in mainland China.

Since the food safety crisis was erupted in China, the banned chemical has been found in an array of food products, forcing a wave of recalls, mostly in Asia.

Chinese suppliers are believed to have added melamine in their milk to fool tests aimed at verifying protein content.

Health experts say ingesting a small amount of melamine poses no danger, but larger amounts of the chemical can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure. Infants are particularly vulnerable.