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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:31 PM

Tainted Milk Scandal (Felicia)
I'm sure by now, many would have heard of the China-tainted milk related product news that contain melamine. So what is melamine all about???

Melamine an organic base of cyanamide contain 66% of Nitrogen. It is has fire retardant properties when mixed with resins. Melamine by itself is nontoxic in low doses, but when combines with cyanuric acids, it can cause kidney stones due to formation of insoluble melamine cyanurate.

So what is the purpose of adding melamine into milk product???

Apparently, manufactures added Melamine to fool government quality tests after water was added to fraudulently increase the milk's volume, since melamine will cause a false increase in the measurement of protein by increasing the nitrogen levels in the milk. Officials estimate that about 20 percent of the dairy companies tested in China sell products tainted with melamine.


And as of 30 September 2008, the AVA has detected melamine in two additional products imported from China. Both the products contain milk as an ingredient. This brings the total number of affected products to 10. They are:

1) New Sshma Ows Mallow Dippers-Strawberry Flavour,




2) Silang - House of Steamed Potato - Potato & Tomato Cracker



3) Yi Li Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yogurt Flavoured Ice Confection;



4) Dutch Lady Strawberry Flavoured Milk;


5) White Rabbit Creamy Candy;



6) Dutch Lady Banana Flavoured Milk;


7) Dutch Lady Honeydew Flavoured Milk;


8) Silang - House of Steamed Potato - Potato Cracker;


9) 徐福记 Puffed Rice Rolls - Butter Corn Flavour; and


10) 徐福记 Puffed Rice Rolls - Cheese Flavour


The Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of melamine as established by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is 0.63 mg/kg body weight. This means that an adult weighing 60 kg or a child weighing 30 kg can ingest 37.8 mg of melamine and 18.9 mg of melamine respectively every day over a lifetime without any appreciable health risk.

AVA has also proudly tell us that how many of that particular food we must eat daily over a lifetime before we will suffer the effect from eating too much melamine. One reason because the amount found in Singapore is far little as compared to those found in china.




Just imagine you once drank so much of those banaba and honeydew milk daily like me, or chew like there is never enough of white rabits sweets during Lectures/Tutorials while we in TP. Oh no... but relax the maximum we usually eat would be about 10-15 of rabbit sweets at maximum. So we won't have kidney stones yet since we have yet to pass 1/3 of my life eating 47 X 25,200 days of sweets( 30 days X 12 Months X 70 Years) !!!




And the best part is, DUTCH Malaysia company actually place a poster at their website http://www.dutchlady.com.my/en/home.asp specifically to differentiate Dutch products found in Singapore and Malaysia, as Manufactures in Malaysia have vouch for their products.



Nevertheless, those china made product has all been recalled and hence it is still safe to buy as long they are not from china. I found a long list from a blog which many people was inform through sms and email too that they should not eat anymore.

Just to be on the safe side, check the following product when buying, which countries are they from:

1. Jinwel Yougoo Susu Fermentasi Rasa Jeruk
2. Jinwel Yougoo Aneka Buah
3. Jinwel Yougoo tanpa Rasa
4. Guozhen susu bubuk full cream
5. Meiji Indoeskrim Gold Monas Rasa Cokelat
6. Meiji Indoeskrim Gold Monas Rasa Vanila
7. Oreo Stick Wafer
8. Oreo Stick Wafer
9. Oreo Cokelat Sandwich Cookies
10. M&M’s Kembang Gula Cokelat Susu
11. M&M’s Cokelat Susu
12. Snicker’s (biskuit-nougat lapis cokelat)
13. Dove Choc Kembang Gula Cokelat
14. Dove Choc
15. Dove Choc
16. Natural Choice Yoghurt Flavoured Ice Bar
17. Yili Bean Club Matcha Red Bean Ice Bar
18. Yili Bean Club Red Bean Ice Bar
19. Yili Prestige Chocliz
20. Yili Chestnut Ice Bar
21. Nestle Dairy Farm UHT Pure Milk
22. Yili High Calcium Low Fat Milk Beverage
23. Yili High Calcium Milk Beverage
24. Yili Pure Milk 205 ml
25. Yili Pure Milk 1 L
26. Dutch Lady Strawberry Flavoured Milk
27. White Rabbit Creamy Candy
28. Yili Choice Dairy Frozen Yoghurt Bar (kembang gula)

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