2 Chinese Milk Brands in the Philippines positive for Melamine!

Ron Del Rosario — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:17:01 +0000

The Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs(BFAD) has finally pinpointed 2 Chinese milk brands containing melamine and cleared 26 brands previously quarantined for investigation. The two Chinese milk products that tested positive for melamine are Mengniu Milk and Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk.

The brands that came out negative for melamine are:

1. Anchor lite milk

2. Anlene High calcium low fat milk UHT

3. Bear Brand instant

4. Chic choc milk chocolate

5. Farmland skim milk

6. Jimwei Drink

7. Jolly cow pure fresh cow’s milk

8. Kiddy soya Milk Egg delight

9. Lactogen 1 DHA infant formula

10. M&Ms milk chocolate candies

11. M&Ms peanut chocolate candies

12. Milk Boy

13. Nestogen 2 DHA follow-up formula

14. Nestogen 3 DHA follow-up formula

15. Nido 3+ prebio with DHA

16. Nido Full Cream milk powder

17. Nido Jr.

18. No-sugar chocolate of Isomalt 2 Oligosaccharide

19. Nutri Express milk drink

20. Pura UHT fresh Milk

21. Snickers fresh roasted in caramel nougat in thick milk chocolate

22. Vitasoy soya milk drink

23. Wahaha Orange

24. Wahaha Yellow

25. Want want Milk Drink

26. Windmill Skim milk powder

Milk Products still pending with BFAD as of Oct. 3, 2008:

1. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Drink Mango Magic

2. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Orange Chill

3. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Strawberry Spin

4. Dutch Lady Pure Milk

5. Jollycow Slender Lowfat Milk

6. KLIM Install Full Cream Milk Powder (1.8kg)

7. Meiji Hokkaido Azuki (Red bean ice Cream)

8. Meiji Ujikintoko (Red bean and green tea frozen confection)

9. Mengniu Original Drink Milk

10. Mengniu Pure Milk

11. Milk chocolate bars/china

12. Milk chocolate candies/china

13. Monmilk breakfast milk walnut milk beverage

14. Monmilk high calcium low fat milk

15. Monmilk high calcium milk

16. Monmilk milk deluxe pure milk

17. Monmilk pure mil

18. Monmilk suan suan ru sour milk beverage (mango flavor)

19. Natural choice milk ice var

20. Nespray

21. Nestle carnation calcium plus non fat milk powder (1.6kg)

22. Nestle chocolate flavor ice cream cone

23. Nestle dairy farm pure milk

24. Nestle vanilla flavor ice cream cone

25. Nutri-express 15 nutritional elements (blue, red and orange label and cap)

26. Nutri-express milk green apple

27. Prime roast cereals 28gm

28. Strawberry sorbet

29. Trappist dairy low fat yogurt drink

30. Vita fresh milk

31. Yili High calcium 250ml

32. Yili High calcium milk 1L

33. Yili High calcium low fat milk beverage

34. Yili low fat milk 1L

35. Yili milk

36. Yili puremilk 250ml

37. Yili puremilk 1L

38. Yinlu Milk Peanut

The Chinese Milk Scandal

Ron Del Rosario — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:04:43 +0000

With the deaths of 4 infants and 55,000+ more ill, countries all over the world are now stepping up tests to certify their imported milk product safety. The source of the milk poisoning stems from the melanine added to infant milk products by chinese manufacturers to mask the actual protein content of their milk products.

Melamine Defined by Wikipedia

Melamine is an organic base and a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 66% nitrogen by mass and, if mixed with resins, has fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred, and has several other industrial uses. Melamine combines with cyanuric acid to form melamine cyanurate, which has been implicated in the Chinese protein export contaminations.

Melamine’s Toxicity

Melamine by itself is not toxic in small doses. But when mixed with cyanurate acid it can cause fatal kidney stones due to the formation of an insoluble melamine cyanurate.

A repeat of the 2007 Chinese Animal Feed Recall

Just last year a similar scandal erupted also in China resulting in the deaths of pets who ingested the pet food also contaminated with melamine. The pets suffered from kidney and acute renal failure due to the crystallized melamine found in their urine.

Action from local Health Officials

Local health officials everywhere are quickly analyzing the isolated milk products imported from China. To alleviate customer worries several associations like the Philippine Baking Industry Group assured it’s customers that it does not import it’s milk products from China.