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Singapore Dutch lady brand of strawberry flavoured milk was found with melamine!!

Filed Under (Food, Special) by nicson on 20-09-2008

This is a really bad news. China milk incident is checked by maybe this medicine is fed to cows and goats in China that cased this big stretch of incidents.

Can you imagine the food that is related in this incident?

I dont think is advised to buy china dairy products now.

In my mind now will be….

Beef, beef related items, goat related items, milk, yogurt, cheese, cream, milk related drinks, yogurt drink, chocolate, sweet, butter, burgers, ham, steak, pizza, any cheese related food, baked rice(my favorite), cakes, cheese cakes, bread with milk content, deserts and so many more.

Is like everything need milk, I wonder what will be the food left over to eat. This will takes a long time to recover as this food cycle is a really big one.

Importer of Dutch Lady brand milk destroying all milk made in China

SINGAPORE : The importer of Dutch Lady brand milk products - Friesland Foods Singapore - has recalled all its flavours of sterilised milk made in China.

This comes after Singapore’s Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority announced on Friday that its tests found traces of melamine in samples of Dutch Lady strawberry flavoured milk, and a Yili-brand yogurt bar.

Friesland Foods said it will be destroying all milk made in China, despite the fact that only the strawberry flavoured bottles have shown traces of melamine.

It added that only the sterilised bottled milk is made in China, whereas its other products come from Malaysia.

It said Dutch Lady products not produced in China are completely safe for consumption.

It is sending all China-made products for lab tests, and the results will be known on Monday, and added all China-made products should be off the shelves by Saturday.

Additionally, consumers of Dutch Lady products can call 6419-8466 to get further information. Consumers can call the hotline starting from September 22 to 26, from 9am till 5pm daily.

After it was announced on Friday that Singapore has suspended the sale and import of all Chinese dairy products, a supermarket chain here received over 100 requests for refunds on Saturday.

The chain carried more than 10 milk products made in China, and staff were busy removing them from the shelves.

Melamine is a toxic industrial chemical that caused kidney stones in many of the Chinese babies who drank formula laced with it. It has been blamed for four infant deaths and illnesses in over 6,000 babies. - CNA/ms

What is Melamine?

Melamine is normally used to make plastics but has been used to boost the apparent protein content of watered-down milk.

It was revealed this week that people in China have been deliberately diluting milk to cut costs, then adding melamine to make the product appear normal.

Look at the sick babies now in China

China promises all-out effort for sick babies

BEIJING : China’s cabinet ordered an all-out effort on Saturday to save babies poisoned by contaminated milk powder which has claimed the lives of four infants and sickened thousands more.

The State Council said sick babies should be given free medical treatment, ordered more checks on the dairy industry and vowed to punish those responsible for the scandal, the state Xinhua news agency said, quoting a statement.

The government has already announced the arrest of 18 people for their roles in the contamination of milk with the industrial chemical melamine.

Four babies have died and more than 6,000 are ill after drinking tainted infant formula, and the government said this week that regular milk, yoghurt and ice-cream were also affected.

The cabinet statement said the companies responsible would be made to foot the bill for treating babies who developed kidney problems after drinking the tainted milk.

“Local authorities should rectify the dairy industry so as to bring a fundamental change to the dairy market and products,” it said.

Melamine is normally used to make plastics but has been used to boost the apparent protein content of watered-down milk.

It was revealed this week that people in China have been deliberately diluting milk to cut costs, then adding melamine to make the product appear normal.

The problem came to light last week in China’s state-controlled media, but New Zealand Saturday said its embassy in Beijing had known of the problem since mid-August.

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra told an embassy official on August 14 that its Chinese partner Sanlu appeared to have received contaminated milk and that there were reports of a small number of sick children, it said.

The embassy advised Fonterra that the Chinese central government would normally be informed by local authorities.

But some Chinese press reports said the scam had been going on for years, with China’s chaotic and corrupt food safety system unable either to detect or prevent it.

President Hu Jintao criticised local officials for lapses in public safety at a Communist Party meeting on Friday, saying there were “painful lessons” to be drawn from a spate of health scares and industrial accidents.

“There have been some serious work and food safety accidents this year in certain places which have caused major harm to life and to the well-being of the masses,” the People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, quoted Hu as saying.

“These incidents show that some officials have lost a sense of principles, of the public interest, of responsibilities, of attention to (people’s) suffering.”

China has a history of cover-ups involving health and safety scandals.

In one of the worst cases, China initially tried to deny the existence of the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, and only owned up after it spilled over into other countries.

Hu has repeatedly said the fight against official corruption is a priority in China, where the lack of a free press or an independent judiciary has allowed graft to flourish. - AFP/ms

SIngapore news about Dutch lady

SINGAPORE — The Agri—Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has suspended the import and sale of all milk and dairy products from China with immediate effect, after tests found melamine contamination in two brands of China—made milk products.

Two days ago, AVA issued an advisory about the recall of Yili brand “Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yogurt Flavoured Ice Confection” based on Hong Kong’s findings of melamine contamination in such products.

Subsequently, AVA took samples of the product for testing and found two samples to be contaminated with melamine. All stocks of the affected product have been removed from market shelves since 17 September and will be destroyed, said an AVA statement on Friday.

“Our tests also found that the “Dutch Lady” brand of strawberry flavoured milk manufactured in China to be contaminated with melamine. These products have also been recalled and will be destroyed. Other “Dutch Lady” brand milk products which are not manufactured in China are unaffected,” said the statement.

“As a precautionary measure, AVA is also suspending the import and sale of all milk and milk products from China with immediate effect,” added the statement.

Consumers who have bought Yili brand “Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yogurt Flavoured Ice Confection” and “Dutch Lady” brand of strawberry flavoured milk (manufactured in China) are advised not to consume them.

AVA said retailers and importers have also been instructed to recall these products and these products will be withheld from sale until they have cleared the necessary tests.

AVA has also instructed local food manufacturers to stop the use of milk and milk products from China as ingredients until the completion of its investigations. Consignments which have just arrived or are on the way will also be withheld from sale.

As regards infant formula, AVA reassures the public that there is no such import from China. Infant formulas sold in Singapore are safe for consumption, it said.

Comments:

6 Responses to “Singapore Dutch lady brand of strawberry flavoured milk was found with melamine!!”

yongwei on 20 Sep 2008 at 8:58 pm #

eh shit i drank soya milk and am feelings uncomfortable lately, moreoverthe soy milk got like…..little little dots of white substance after i drink to the bottom of my cup.

forgot wad brand, its blue, i think is nutrisoy
nicson on 20 Sep 2008 at 9:43 pm #

ha ha ha nvm is milk, not soya milk
hyperX on 21 Sep 2008 at 2:05 am #

wtf… again… this is bad especially these products are consume by kids. I hope this will never ever happens again in future.
nicson on 21 Sep 2008 at 12:51 pm #

most of the items are by kids….poor thing
Zainab on 22 Sep 2008 at 5:18 pm #

So far, no one has brought up the fact that in the US, about 8 months ago, last year maybe, hundreds and probably thousands of pedigreed cats died from eating expensive, professional branded cat food which contained rice flour from China containing melamine. It took awhile to find out what was causing the illness, but the deaths were all kidney failure related to the melamine, just like the babies. One would think that that would have been enough for the Chinese gov’t to start looking at their product control. This rice flour was being shipped and then used by reputable factories that had no reason to doubt the reliability of the product. Who would?
It is easy to say one should boycott foods that come from China, but we don’t know the primary sources of ingredients in most processed foods. The next best thing is to boycott all Chinese made products until they clean up their act.
Presumably they wrote off the pet food scandal because they were ‘only cats’. Chinese have little affection or understanding of cats. However, breeders may have thousands of dollars invested and thousands more lost in future revenue. If they had not taken this attitude, their own children might not have had to suffer and die. A horrendous tragedy for parents who are allowed only one child.
I believe that CNN should investigate and report on the pet food problems in the US and connect it to this story, as there is no telling where it will surface next. Maybe in your Cheerios!
Jack on 17 Oct 2008 at 3:34 am #

Soya milk too…BingGuan brand in Guangzhou is contaminated. google it…just wonder how many more companies are involved but not confessing…and how many other scams going in food these days.