Updates on Chinese Milk Formula Contamination -cont- #2

Here are news links to the Chinese Melamine baby milk contamination:

Amid Milk Scandal, Wahaha Looks To Slurp Up Sanlu Chinese soft drink giant Hangzhou Wahaha Group wants to buy Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group, whose brand was destroyed when the company became engulfed in the tainted milk crisis that has gripped China's dairy industry and reverberated across the world. Some analysts have their doubts that trust could ever be restored in the Sanlu brand, though. Wahaha joins other companies like Sanyuan Food and Wondersun Dairy that are eager to pick up Sanlu on the cheap, according to state news agency Xinhua on Monday. (Forbes, 10/14/2008)

15 More Producers Accused in Dairy Scandal,China's Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said it identified 15 more companies producing contaminated dairy products, Bloomberg reports. The government published a new report on its website saying "about 31 batches of adult milk powder contained the chemical melamine." These batches were obtained from companies that have so far not been involved with the scandal. The total number of Chinese companies using melamine for faking protein levels in their products has now increased to 37. Chinese officials have promised foreign diplomats to halt exports of dairy products until the melamine contamination is eliminated, AFP reports. The scandal widens as more than 20 countries have banned Chinese milk products. (BizChina News 10/03/2008)

Philippines Finds Contaminated Chinese Milk Products Philippine health officials say two Chinese-made milk products have tested positive for melamine. Health Secretary Francisco Duque says the two products were among 30 that have been removed from Philippine stores. Duque says the products were smuggled into the country after Manila imposed a ban on Chinese milk products two weeks ago. Health Secretary Francisco Duque has ordered the closure of stores selling Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk and Mengniu Drink from China. (Voice of America, 10/03/2008)

Vietnam finds tainted products from China Vietnam's health ministry has discovered the industrial chemical melamine in 18 food products imported from China and three other countries and has ordered them recalled and destroyed. Russian news agencies reported that food inspectors found nearly two tons of Chinese dry milk believed to be contaminated with melamine. Australian food regulators recalled China-made Kirin Milk Tea after tests in found the drink contained melamine.(AP, 10/03/2008)

Wary of China milk powder, Taiwan bans Nestle items Taiwan health officials on Thursday ordered stores around the island to remove six types of Nestle dairy products after tests found traces of contamination from China, which is at the center of a tainted milk powder imbroglio. In the capital Taipei and Taiwan's second largest city Kaohsiung, store clerks piled jumbo cans marked KLIM and Nespray, two of the banned products, into carts, leaving shelves bare.(Reuters, 10/02/2008)

Unilever latest to find tainted milk in Chinese goods Unilever yesterday became the third multinational food group in less than a week to issue a product recall linked to the Chinese melamine scandal, highlighting weaknesses in global food safety practices. The move follows US food group Heinz's recall last week of 270 cases of Chinese-produced baby food sold in Hong Kong, and UK confectionery group Cadbury's this week of all chocolate produced at its Beijing factory. (Financial Times, UK, 10/01/2008)