Beware & Protect Yourself 01 (May 08 - Dec 08)

[winston]

Japan's Nissin recalls 500,000 noodles over insecticide fears
AFP

TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's Nissin Food Products Co. said Friday it was recalling half a million cups of instant noodles over fears of insecticide contamination in the latest food safety scare to rock the country's consumers.

A 67-year-old woman vomited and felt numbness on her tongue after eating Nissin's Cup Noodle this week in the Tokyo suburb of Fujisawa, the city's health office said late Thursday.

The product was made at a Nissin factory in Japan. A series of previous scares have involved food imported from China.

The health office said on inspecting the Cup Noodle they had discovered paradichlorobenzene, the key chemical in bug repellent, but no puncture or other abnormality in the cup.

Nissin was voluntarily recalling around 500,000 cups made on the same factory line the same day, a company spokesman said.

They were sold at supermarkets in Tokyo and neighbouring areas with most of them already gone from store shelves, he said.

"We apologise for causing trouble to Cup Noodle lovers," Nissin president Susumu Nakagawa told reporters late Thursday.

However, he denied the possibility of contamination at the factory, saying it had never used or stored the insecticide and had seven security cameras watching manufacturing lines.

"It is unthinkable that the contamination occurred at our production lines," he said.

The noodles scare spread Friday as another company, Myojo Foods Co. of Tokyo, said it found instant noodles laced with paradichlorobenzene and naphthol, also used as bug repellent.

A man "poured in hot water and noticed chemical smells," said a health official in Yososuka, southwest of Tokyo. The man was unhurt as he did not eat the noodles.

Nissin, based in the western Japan city of Osaka, created instant ramen noodles as Japan's economy grew rapidly after World War II. Aimed at busy people on the go, it has since become a multibillion-dollar industry.

Japan has been on alert after a series of health scares involving food, mostly made in China.

Earlier this month one woman fell sick after eating frozen green beans imported from China, which were found to contain thousands of times the permissible level of pesticide residue.

[kennynah]

Japan's Nissin recalls 500,000 noodles over insecticide fears

..... paradichlorobenzene

i recall Winston once educated us that the longest english word is

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis

now, could this paradichlorobenzene be the 2nd longest english word?

[winston]

by iam802 on Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:43 pm

From AsiaOne.

Now, even Julie and Khong Guan are included.
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Melamine has been detected in three other China-made products, reported the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) today. These are:

1. Lotte Koala's March Cocoa Chocolate Biscuit
2. Hello Kitty Strawberry Cream Filled Biscuit
3. Unbranded non-dairy creamer in industrial pack

The two types of biscuits contained milk ingredients and have been recalled since Sept 19. The non-dairy creamer is meant for re-export and is not available in the retail market.

Melamine has also been found in 17 biscuit products from Malaysia. These are:

1. Julie's Golden Kaka Crackers
2. Julie's Wheat Crackers
3. Julie's Cottage Crackers (Vegetable Yeast Cracker)
4. Julie's Cottage Crackers (Original Yeast Cracker)
5. Julie's Chez Creamy Cheese Sandwich
6. Julie's Sugar Crackers (extra flaky)
7. Julie's Waferico Chocolate Coated Wafers with Chocolate Cream Filling
8. Julie's Cream Crackers
9. Julie's Minico Rich Chocolate Chip Cookies
10. Julie's Peanut Butter Sandwich
11. Julie's Cocoro Crispy Chocolate Wafer Rolls with Vanilla Filling
12. Julie's Le-Mond Puff Sandwich with Lemon Flavoured Cream
13. Khong Guan Assorted Biscuits
14. Khian Guan Biscuit Osborne
15. Leo Gold Finger Choco
16. Santa Chocolate Gold Fingers
17. Swan Chocolate Fingers

[winston]

Hong Kong steps up testing of China food imports after egg scare

• Nearly quarter of Beijing infants fed tainted milk
• SKorea says Chinese powdered egg contains melamine

HONG KONG - Hong Kong will expand its testing of food imported from China after the toxic chemical melamine was found in mainland eggs, a senior official said Sunday, according to a television report.

The city's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) will now test pork, farmed fish and offal products imported from China, government health secretary York Chow said, according to ATV news.

Chow said the centre would step up its testing of eggs imported from the mainland to see if they contained traces of the industrial chemical, the report said.

The CFS revealed Saturday that melamine had been found in a brand of eggs.

The chemical is at the centre of a toxic milk scandal which has rocked China's dairy industry but this was the first example of eggs testing positive in Hong Kong.

Four children have died and 53,000 fallen ill in China after drinking milk or milk products laced with melamine, which is usually used in making plastics.

A total of 10 Hong Kong children have fallen ill with kidney stones after drinking melamine-tainted milk products.

Some Chinese manufacturers had been using the chemical to make watered-down milk appear to have a higher protein content.

An array of China-made foods and drinks have been removed from store shelves around the world since the contamination first came to light.

- AFP/ir

[winston]

By millionairemind on Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:03 pm

This is getting very bad for China's image. Who dares to buy Chinese food stuff???

Suspect eggs pulled off shelves in southern China
Posted: 28 October 2008 1406 hrs

BEIJING: Eggs suspected of being tainted with the industrial chemical melamine have been pulled from shelves of major retailers in southern China, state press reported Tuesday.

Retailers in Guangzhou city began recalling eggs produced in northeast China after Hong Kong authorities announced over the weekend the discovery of melamine in mainland Chinese eggs, the Guangzhou Daily said.

French retail giant Carrefour and other domestic retailers such as Huarun Wanjia and Baijia removed the "Kekeda" brand of eggs produced by the Hanwei Group, one of China's biggest egg producers, the report said.

The contaminated eggs in Hong Kong were from Hanwei.

Four children have died of kidney failure and 53,000 fallen ill in China this year after drinking milk or consuming dairy products laced with melamine, which is usually used in making plastics and fertilisers.

The melamine was added into the milk to give it the appearance of having higher protein levels.

The discovery of melamine in eggs has raised concerns about contamination spreading through China's food chain.

A UN agency called Tuesday for China to immediately disclose if an industrial chemical found in dairy products had been used in livestock feed and contaminated the wider food chain.

The recent discovery of melamine in mainland chicken eggs sold in Hong Kong has triggered worries that the chemical was present in a wide range of foods such as farm-raised meats and fish, a UN official said.

Zhang Zhongjun, programme officer with the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, told AFP that China's agriculture ministry was investigating the possibility that melamine had been mixed into farming feed.

“But we do not know the details of the investigation... we want them to immediately report to us the results of their findings," Zhang said.

"If the feed is found to be contaminated, then there is the possibility (that pork, chicken, fish and beef could also be contaminated)."

Zhang said that feed producers could have laced their products with melamine to falsely boost protein content, similar to the methods of milk producers in a scandal that has left China's dairy industry in shambles.

The Hanwei Group has refused to comment on whether its eggs were tainted with melamine. Phone calls by AFP to the company headquarters went unanswered on Tuesday.

Press reports said Beijing branches of Hanwei denied the existence of tainted eggs.

- AFP/yb

[winston]

Hong Kong finds melamine in another Chinese brand of eggs

HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Hong Kong has found the toxic chemical melamine in another Chinese brand of eggs, authorities said, as worries mount that the food safety scandal is spreading to China's wider food chain.

The product came from Jingshan Pengchang Agricultural Products, a processing plant in the central Chinese province of Hubei, Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) said in a statement.

"The medium-sized egg sample was taken from a restaurant. Based on the level detected, people are advised to stop consuming the product concerned," the statement, released late yesterday, said.

"The CFS has sent warning letters to the food premises and distributor concerned and asked them to stop using and selling the product."

The centre found 2.9 parts per million (ppm) of the chemical in the egg sample, which exceeded the legal limit in Hong Kong of 2.5 ppm.

A three-year-old child would have to eat about 24 of the tainted eggs before the amount of melamine would become dangerous, the centre said.

An adult weighing 60 kilograms would have to consume 283 of the eggs before reaching the danger level, the statement said.

Yesterday, Hong Kong's food safety watchdog said tests showed Select Fresh Brown Eggs produced in the northeastern city of Dalian contained melamine.

Retail giant Wal-Mart said it had pulled eggs from the producer off its shelves in its Chinese stores.

Four children have died and 53,000 fallen ill in China after drinking milk or milk products laced with melamine, which is usually used to make plastics.

Some manufacturers had been using the chemical to make watered-down milk appear to have a higher protein content.

An array of China-made foods and drinks have been removed from store shelves around the world since the contamination first came to light.

afp

[winston]

China's animal feed tainted with melamine

Animal feed producers in China commonly add the industrial chemical melamine to their products to make them appear higher in protein, state media reported, an indication that the scope of the country's latest food safety scandal could extend beyond milk and eggs.

The practice of mixing melamine into animal feed is an ''open secret'' in the industry, the Nanfang Daily newspaper reported in an article that was republished on the websites of the official Xinhua News Agency and the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.

Publicizing such a problem is rare in the Chinese media and appears to be a tacit admission by the central government that melamine contamination is widespread.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

[kennynah]

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[blid2def]

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[kennynah]

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