With the recent milk scare in China, we are seeing countries all across the world taking precautions to ensure that whatever imported dairy products are safe for consumption. Malaysia’s Health Ministry has release a list of safe diary of safe milk products.
In general, after studying the list, I would say that those dairy products from Australia, United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Indonesia, Thailand, Ireland, Europe are safe. The Health Ministry listed that products by Mead Johnson, Dumex, Nestle, Fonterra Brands, Kilang Makanan Mamee, Dutch Lady, Ace Canning Corporation, Maestro Swiss Food Sdn Bhd, Wyeth Malaysia, Malaysia Milk Sdn Bhd, Cotra Enterprise Sdn Bhd and GlaxoSmithKline are safe.
TheStar reported that the Health Ministry has started checks on retail outlets all over the country for dairy products produced in China. Singapore’s Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority was ahead of Malaysia when it started suspending import of all milk and milk products from China and instructed retailers and importers to recall such products last week.
Three products were found to contain melamine are White Rabbit Creamy Candy, Yili Brand Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yogurt and Dutch Lady strawberry-flavoured milk.
Oh ya, dairy products were defined by the Health Ministry as: milk, pasteurised milk, UHT milk, flavoured milk, full cream milk, skim milk, evaporated, condensed milk, butter, cheese, ice cream, yoghurt and ghee.
Update @ September 24, 2008
Singapores food authorities detected five more products with melamine. They are Dutch Lady’s Banana Flavoured Milk and Honeydew Flavoured Milk, Silang House of Steamed Potato Potato Cracker, and Puffed Rice Rolls with Butter Corn Flavour and Cheese Flavour.
Gosh! I ate a lot of the “White Rabbit Creamy Candy” when I was a kid. I wonder if I have Melanine in my body now? Scared…
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