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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby blid2def » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:52 am

Sui lah. Say so nice things about me. Next time we meet, remind me to buy you kopi-o without melamine.

Koonz time! I need to protect myself from the my LCD monitor. KNN, spend 12 hours a day in front of it everyday... see until my face also got 1280 x 1024 pixels.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby kennynah » Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:54 am

agree...kooonz time...tired....notebook monitor burn....
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby winston » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:57 pm

China says Japan sauces tainted with toxic paint chemicals

• Tainted egg scare spreads to Beijing
• Thailand finds smuggled Chinese chocolate tainted with melamine

BEIJING - China said Friday it had found toxic chemicals used in paint in Japanese mustard and soy sauce.

Tests conducted by quarantine officials found Japan-produced soy sauce and mustard sauce had been contaminated by toluene and acetic ester, Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

"This would risk people's health," Xinhua said, citing experts on the chemicals which are used in paint and paint thinners.

"They will lead to headaches and vomiting if people eat food tainted with them," Xinhua said.

The sauces were produced by three Japanese factories, Xinhua said without revealing the names of the producers. The watchdog ordered Chinese companies to test similar products and take them off the shelves, the report said.

No related sicknesses had been reported in China, but the two chemicals had caused some sickness in Japan, it added.

Earlier this year, Japan accused China of producing tainted frozen beans and dodgy dumplings.

Several Japanese were made ill by Chinese-made dumplings that contained pesticide, but a joint investigation failed to reveal how the contamination occurred.

China also said this month it had no evidence that frozen beans pulled from the shelves in Japan were tainted with pesticide.

China has been swept by a series of food- and product-safety scandals in recent months involving goods ranging from toys, tyres, toothpaste, pet food to fish and baby cribs.

It is also fighting a scare over melamine found in milk and other products.

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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby kennynah » Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:08 pm

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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby millionairemind » Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:46 pm

Melamine already in global food chain: experts
By GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press Writer AP - Saturday, November 1

BEIJING - First, it was baby milk formula. Then, dairy-based products from yogurt to chocolate.

Now, chicken eggs have been contaminated with melamine, and an admission by state-run media that the industrial chemical is regularly added to animal feed in China is fueling fears the problem could be more widespread, affecting fish, meat and who knows what else.

Peter Dingle, a toxicity expert at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, said, however, that aside from the tainted baby formula that killed at least four Chinese infants and left 54,000 children hospitalized just over a month ago, it is unlikely that humans will get sick from melamine.

The amount of the chemical in a few servings of bacon, for instance, would simply be too low, he said.

But Dingle and others said China should have cracked down sooner on feed companies that have boosted their earnings by fortifying their products with the chemical, which is normally used in the manufacture of plastic and fertilizers.

Rich in nitrogen, melamine gives low-quality food and feed artificially high protein readings.

"Traders can make a lot of profit by doing it," said Jason Yan, the U.S. Grains Council's technical director in Beijing.

Extremely high levels of melamine _ as found in the Chinese baby formula _ can cause kidney stones and in extreme cases can bring on life-threatening kidney failure.

But while scientists say it's not dangerous to ingest small amounts, they cannot be definitive because there have been no tests on melamine's effects in humans. Until the contaminated baby formula became public in September, there was never any reason to.

That leaves consumers worldwide, particularly parents, worried about food products from China and even those made elsewhere with ingredients imported from Chinese companies.

Among those not taking any chances is Pranee Suankaew, a homemaker in Bangkok, Thailand.

"Let's go, let's go," the 37-year-old mother said as she tugged her 4-year-old away from the candy aisle where he eagerly eyed a bag of M&Ms. "We're getting you fruit and a lollipop. There's no milk in that."

She said she usually gives in to avoid tantrums. "But this time, I told him, no, no, no."

Experts say melamine sometimes accidentally leaches into the food supply in low levels, from things like plastic dinnerware. It can also seep in from some pesticides and fertilizers.

But in China, it's become clear that the chemical is deliberately added.

The baby formula set off a global recall of foods made with Chinese dairy products and sparked raids in supermarkets across Asia. Twelve truckloads of candy, yogurt and other dairy-based goods were burned in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, just this week.

In light of state media reports Wednesday on the widespread use of the chemical in animal feed, health experts say the government clearly knew melamine was being added for more than a year, since contaminated dog food made it to markets in North America, but authorities didn't crack down on producers as promised.

With the scandal escalating, Chinese leaders are now desperate to clean up the country's image, making dozens of arrests in recent weeks and firing local and even high-level officials for negligence.

John Chapple, a Singapore-based adviser to Sinoanalytica, a food analysis laboratory in the Chinese city of Qingdao, said the decision to allow state media to report on the years of melamine use seems to show the government is ready to be more active in dealing with food safety.

"However, one is not going to change a hierarchical government system overnight," he added. "It is usually going to be slow to start to react to a crisis, but quick to finally nail it."

Though China has vowed to boost inspections for melamine contamination, it will be difficult to monitor the countless small, illegally operating manufacturers found across the country, other experts said.

"It could take five or even 10 years" before some companies stop adding the chemical to food products, said Yan, of the U.S. Grains Council.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby kennynah » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:33 pm

better start considering rearing my own chickens and grow that bean sprouts....
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby winston » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:02 am

Noodlefish found tainted with chemical

Another food safety scare hit the city yesterday when five noodlefish, pak fa'an yu, samples sold in wet markets and a supermarket were found to contain a banned chemical.

The Centre for Food Safety discovered five of the 10 samples contained formaldehyde at levels ranging from 170 to 570 parts per million.

"We believe the formaldehyde was added as a preservative after the fish were caught, or during transportation or storage," a spokeswoman at the center said.

The five samples were sold at four wet market stalls in Shek Wu Hui in Sheung Shui; Tai Po Hui Market, Butterfly Estate in Tuen Mun; Pok Hong Estate in Sha Tin; and the Wellcome supermarket in the Metropole Building on King's Road in North Point.

Wellcome said it has removed the fish from shelves.

Under existing legislation, the chemical is not permitted for use as a food preservative.

Violators are liable to a maximum fine of HK$50,000 and six months' imprisonment.

"The levels of formaldehyde detected are unlikely to cause adverse health effect upon normal consumption," the spokeswoman said.

"But consumption on a long-term basis may result in increased health risk, such as gastro-intestinal upset.

"While there is inadequate human data on the chronic health effects of formaldehyde, the effects are extrapolated from animal experiments."

She added the center has issued warning letters to the supermarket and stall operators and that officials are also tracing the source of the fish.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby winston » Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:47 am

Now China points finger at foreign milk products

BEIJING (Reuters) - China, embroiled in a tainted milk scandal that has made thousands of infants sick, has published a list of foreign companies that failed to meet quality standards for imported products ranging from milk powder to rosewater.

At least four children died and tens of thousands were made ill by drinking milk powder adulterated with melamine, prompting many worried parents to switch to foreign-made formula.

Melamine, a compound used in making plastic chairs among other uses, is added to food to cheat nutrition tests and has since been found in other dairy products, eggs and animal feed, prompting recalls of Chinese-made products around the world.

China's quality watchdog intercepted 191 batches of problem foreign goods in July, including milk powder and other dairy products made by Australian and South Korean companies, the Beijing News said, citing the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ).

Nearly nine tons of "Ausnutria" brand milk powder produced by Australian dairy company Tatura Industries Ltd and supplied to an Australian-Chinese joint venture in southern Hunan province had failed a standard for E. sakazaki, a bacteria, according to a list posted on AQSIQ's website (aqsiq.gov.cn).

A company official at Tatura said the problem batch had passed quality inspections in Australia before being seized at Chinese customs.

"The products never made it into the local market," Tony McKenna, general manager of Nutritionals at Tatura, told Reuters by telephone.

"We've absolute faith in our quality systems, but we will comply with all of (the Chinese) requirements," McKenna said.

More than 14 tons of "Pauls" brand milk imported from Australia had also failed a bacteria standard, the notice said.

"Pauls" milk is produced by Parmalat Australia Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Italian dairy giant Parmalat.

Parmalat Australia said in a statement emailed to Reuters it had never been informed of any problems with its products by Chinese authorities.

"We are keen to assist in any way to clarify the issue but it is unusual that the issue has just been raised now and only through the media," the statement said.

"All Parmalat products are subject to stringent quality standards, passing quality inspections in Australia prior to export," it added.

Authorities also seized more than 4,000 pounds (1,970 kg) of a brand of cheese supplied by an American company to Chinese dairy producer Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, and other products ranging from British biscuits to chicken feet from Argentina.

It was not clear why the customs authority posted the list more than three months after the inspections, but the publication comes as China battles to improve its food safety system in the wake of a series of food and product-safety scandals.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby kennynah » Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:07 am

nestle milk choc made in sweden....can makan or not?
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself

Postby winston » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:16 am

Melamine now hits fish feed

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The melamine scare has spread from baby formula to animal feed after a sample of feed used at a fish farm on Lantau Island was found to contain traces of the chemical.

It is the first time melamine has been found in animal feed, according to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department.

Hong Kong has informed the mainland because the product was from Zhuhai.

Fish feed from three other farms - in Taiwan, France and Japan - were also tested and passed by the Centre for Food Safety.

The center also tested eight live marine fish samples collected from the four farms. All the samples were satisfactory.

"The results tally with an earlier study conducted by the United States Food and Drug Administration that animal feed tainted with melamine has limited effect on edible meat tissue," a center spokesman said.

The department has also asked the mainland authorities to follow up the latest discovery. "We are advising local fish and livestock farmers ask their feed suppliers to ascertain the products they supply do not contain melamine when sourcing animal feed," the spokesman added.

In Macau, three more children have been found with kidney stones connected to contaminated milk. PATSY MOY
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