China: Melamine tainted milk, current situation

[Anne]

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Netherlands: melamine discovered in Chinese flours of soya


Melamine was discovered in flours of soya coming from China and intended for the animal feed, Friday the health authorities Dutchwomen in an official statement announced.

The presence of melamine was announced Thursday to the health authorities by a Dutch raw material importer intended for the manufacture of food for the cattle, according to the official statement.

The flour of soya accused was delivered to three manufacturers feedingstuffs. The contaminated food was withdrawn Friday of the exploitations to which they had been delivered.

?Because of the relatively low melamine rate discovered until now?, there are ?no health risks? of the animals and the human health, specifies the official statement.

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Much more children ill from melamine.

Ministry: Six infants possibly died of tainted milk powder


www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-01

BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Six Chinese infants might have died from consuming melamine-tainted milk powder, the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) said here on Monday.

Experts with the MOH and provincial health departments had looked into 11 infant death cases since September across the country, and had ruled out connection to the tainted milk powder in five cases, the ministry said on its website.

They could not, however, rule out such possibility in the rest six cases, it said.

Four of the six cases occured in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou and Shaanxi Provinces respectively, while the rest two cases occurred in the northwestern province of Gansu.

It did not give any further details.

Previous reports said three babies, including two in Gansu Province and one in Zhejiang Province, had already been confirmed by the ministry to have died from consuming the tainted milk from May to August.

The ministry did not make it clear whether the three confirmed cases were included in the six undecided case.

Meanwhile, 861 infants were still receiving treatment for kidney problems caused by tainted milk powder by last Thursday, the ministry said.
The figure dropped by about 200 from the previous week, when the number of hospitalized infants stood at 1,041.

All together 294,000 infants were found to have suffered from diseases of urinary systems in the ministry's nationwide screening, it said.

Among them, 154 had been in serious conditions, but were all stable by Monday. A total of 51,900 children had been hospitalized and 51,039 had recovered and left the hospital.

Most of the sick children were found to have only sand-like stones in their urinary systems

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[Giuseppe]

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Hong Kong: Latest melamine test results (12/2/2008) [CFS]

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) today (December 2) released the latest batch of results of melamine tests. The results showed that 61 of the 62 samples tested were satisfactory.


These included milk, frozen confections, eggs, biscuits and cakes.

An egg sample was found to be unsatisfactory with the level of melamine detected at 4.7ppm.

Details are as follows: Producer: ... Address: ... Egg farm: ... Batch number: JY200811-2 Local importer: ... address: E8, 2/F, Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Food Market

Under the Harmful Substances in Food (Amendment) Regulation 2008, the legal limit for melamine in the concerned product is 2.5ppm.

"The large-sized egg sample was taken at Man Kam To. The CFS has asked the importer to stop selling the affected products. According to the importer, the concerned products have only been distributed to some bakeries but not to any other retail outlets. The Centre is now following up with the concerned bakeries," a CFS spokesman said.

"We have informed the food trade of the test results and asked them to stop selling or using the concerned product. We have also informed the Mainland authorities for follow up."

The safety reference value (i.e. tolerable daily intake - TDI) for melamine is 0.63mg per kg of body weight per day. For children under the age of three years, who are more sensitive to melamine, the TDI for melamine is 0.32mg per kg of body weight per day. Transient excursion above the TDI of melamine would have no health consequences provided that the average intake over a long period has not exceeded the TDI.

On the sample of large-sized egg which was detected with a melamine level of 4.7ppm, the spokesman said a child weighing 10kg (about three years old) would have to eat 0.68kg (about 13 eggs) of the product a day to reach the TDI. An adult with average body weight of 60kg would need to consume 8.04kg (about 152 eggs) of the product a day before reaching the TDI.

The Centre has so far tested 307 egg samples and four were found unsatisfactory.

Information on the test results can be found on the CFS's website, www.cfs.gov.hk.

People can also call the CFS's enquiry number 2381 6096 which operates from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday.
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[sharon sanders]

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Saudi Arabia Withdraws All Chinese Products that Contain Milk -

Trade ordered the withdrawal of the destruction of all Chinese milk products

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Riyadh - WAS:

كثفت وزارة التجارة والصناعة تدابيرها لضمان خلو أسواق المملكة من جميع منتجات الحليب الصيني التي ثبت تلوثها بمادة الميلامين الضارة، حيث عممت الوزارة على جميع فروعها في مناطق ومحافظات المملكة بسحب واتلاف كل الدفعات المعروضة في الاسواق والكميات المحجوزة لدى وكلاء تلك المنتجات.

Intensified the Ministry of Trade and Industry measures to ensure that the Kingdom of all milk products contaminated with the Chinese that have proved harmful substance melamine, where the ministry circulated to all its branches in the regions and governorates of the Kingdom withdrew and destroyed all payments in the market, and presented amounts reserved to the agents of those products.

وطلبت وزارة التجارة والصناعة من مختبرات الجودة النوعية الاستمرار في عدم فسح منتجات أغذية الاطفال الحليبية والحليب الوارد من الصين واخضاع منتجات الاغذية الصينية لمزيد من الفحص والتحليل للتحقق من عدم احتوائها على مادة الميلامين.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry laboratories quality continuing not to allow children Milkiness food products and milk from the China and Chinese food products subject to further examination and analysis to verify the article did not contain melamine.

وأفادت الوزارة في بيان صحفي أن نتائج الفحص والتحليل للعينات التي تم سحبها من الاسواق المحلية للحليب الصيني أثبتت وجود تلوث بمادة الميلامين الضارة في تلك المنتجات.

The ministry said in a press statement that the results of the examination and analysis of samples that have been withdrawn from local markets for milk and the Chinese proved melamine contamination with a harmful products.

وأشارت الى أنها أكملت تزويد مختبراتها بالاجهزة والمستلزمات الفنية المتخصصة في الكشف عن الميلامين في الاغذية ومباشرة أعمال الفحص والتحليل اعتبارا من 1429/11/1ه .

She pointed out that it had completed its laboratories to provide equipment and supplies specialized expertise in the detection of melamine in the food and direct the work of inspection and analysis from e 1429/11/1.

وكانت وزارة التجارة والصناعة قد اتخذت خمسة أجراءات احترازية لمواجهة تلك المشكلة تتضمن عدم فسح منتجات أغذية الاطفال (الحليبية) والحليب بشكل عام الوارد من الصين وعدم فسح أي منتج من منتجات الشركات الصينية المعلن عن تلوث منتجاتها بالميلامين وأخضاع جميع منتجات الاغذية الصينية المحتوية ضمن مكوناتها على الحليب ومشتقاته للفحص المخبري للتأكد من خلوه من مادة الميلامين وسحب عينات من منتجات الحليب الصيني وأخضاعها للفحص والتحليل بالتنسيق مع هيئة الغذاء والدواء.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry has taken five precautionary measures to face this problem include non-food products to allow children (Milkiness) and the milk in China and not allow any products of Chinese companies declared their Balmilamin pollution and the placement of all Chinese food products containing components in the milk And its derivatives for laboratory examination to ascertain the article free of melamine and the withdrawal of samples of milk products of China and subject to examination and analysis in coordination with the food and medicine.

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