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I received another email update from our company and I just paste it below so that you may read the whole article.

The Department of Health (DOH) released yesterday, October 24, 2008 the last batch of milk and milk-based products that were tested by Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD). BFAD cleared all 32 products of the kidney-stone causing melamine.

During the entire stretch of the BFAD laboratory testing, a total of 204 milk and milk by-products had been examined for the presence of melamine.

The last batch of melamine-free food products include:

- Captor Classic Lollipop
- Cham Hoopie Milk Flavor Candy (Special)
- Columbia’s Chocquik Instant Choco Malt Drink, 80g & 300g
- Dairy America Skimmed Milk Processed/Spray processed (repacked)
- Dongguan Mayong Guang Feng Biscuit
- Golden Haosheng Candy
- Good Taste Strong Candy (Assorted Flavors)
- Harden Foods Milkshake Candy (Assorted Flavors)
- Harvey Lacto Strength Milk (Assorted Flavors)
- Le Tian You Ice Candy
- Liantong Biscuit with Chocolate Coated
- Meihua Fusion OHI Chocolate Cookies w/ Filling
- Meiji Clack Chocolate Bar
- Meiji Hi Milk Chocolate Bar
- Miramar Confectionery Nougat Candy
- Candies (Prosperity Flower) (MM)
- Cindera Toffee Roll Candy (MM)
- Really Savory Candy (MM)
- Soft Candy (MM)
- Yamyam Circle Pebble Candy (MM)
- Nicefoods Whis O Ring Candy
- Nutri-Express 15 Nutritional Elements (Colored Orange Cap and Label)
- Nutri-Express 15 Nutritional Elements (Colored Red Cap and Label)
- Pioneer Skimmed Milk Powder (repacked)
- Qualify Food Coffee Candy
- Sweet Dart Coffee Milk Candy
- Sweet Dart Milky Milk Candy
- Wanfu Foods Coffee Mail Tea Cookies Biscuits (yellow wrapper)
- Wanttone Orange Egg Rolls
- Want-Want Hot Kid Milk Candy (I * Milky & Chewy)
- Want-Want Sen Rei Rice Crackers
- Yalilai Olympic Star Candies Beijing 2008 free of the chemical substance

Meanwhile, the products found to have traces of melamine are:

- JollyCow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk (more calcium & Vitamin D) 1 Liter,

- Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk

- Mengniu Drink

- Lotte Strawberry Snack Koala Biscuit

- Lotte B+W Koala biscuit

- Lotte Chocolate snack Koala Biscuit

For more information, you may visit http://www.gmanews.tv/story/129187/DOH-clears-last-batch-of-Chinese-milk-products.

 I received this email from our company’s email blast and I will simply paste the complete email in this post.

The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) cleared Tuesday at least 41 more milk and milk-based products from the list of items possibly tainted with melamine.

In ads placed in the Manila Bulletin and Philippine Star newspapers, the BFAD said that as of Oct. 13, NO melamine was detected in the 41 products.

These include:

* Anchor Fresh Milk;
* Caidenly Biscuits (Milk Flavor);
* Candyman Kendi Mint Chocolate Filled Center;
* Candyman Vi-Va Caramel Sweets Chocolate Filled Center;
* Dairy Champ Evaporada;

* DongGuan Bairong Chocolate Cream Biscuits;
* DongGuan Wanjiang Wan Fu Papaya Cookie;
* DongGuan Bairong Apple Biscuits;
* DongGuan Golden Paddyfield Giadenjy Biscuits;
* DongGuan Golden Paddyfield Little Biscuits;

* DongGuan Mayong Guang Feng Food;
* Engtian Layer Biscuits;
* Eugnitan Layer Biscuits;
* F&N Blue Cow Condensada;
* F&N Daisy Condensada;

* Farmhouse Skimmed Milk Powder;
* Fat & Thin Milky Soya Drink;
* Fudielai Biscuits;
* Keko Candy;
* Kyoto Cookies;

* Liu Wei Bang Lollipop Candy;
* M&M’s Minis Chocolate Candies;
* Mai Wei Su Cookies;
* Milky Soya Milk Drink (Chocolate);
* Milky Soya Milk Drink (Green Apple);

* Milky Soya Milk Drink (Melon);
* Milky Soya Milk Drink (Sweet Corn);
* Pengtian Thin Cracker;
* Pokka Soy 4 U Soy Bean Drink;
* Prime Roast Calcium Enriched Nutritious Cereal;

* Prime Roast Oligosacharide Nutritious Cereal;
* Sally Sikaoqi Milk Candy;
* Sally Sikaoqi Coffee Candy;
* Sukacita Little Bear Biscuits (Chocolate flavor);
* Suntree Coffee Candy;

* Tiong Hwa Soya Milk (unsweetened);
* Vitasoy Calci Plus Healthy Soya Drink (Low Sugar Hi-Calcium Low Fat Cholesterol Free);
* Yeo’s Drink;
* Zhen Xin Sandwich Biscuits;
* Zhongshan Lewwa Food Jelly (Pudding); and
* Zhongshan Meihua Butter with Filling Cake

 

 

For more information, you may visit http://www.gmanews.tv/story/126860/41-more-milk-dairy-products-passed-govt-lab-test—BFAD

 

 

 

Moreover, Department of Health (DOH) – BFAD also released an official list (last October 10, 2008) of milk and dairy products positive with Melamine contents. Please see attached file for your reference.

 

These include:

 

1. Greenwood Yili Fresh Milk (in Chinese characters)

2. Mengniu Drink (in Chinese character)

3. Sanlu (Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co.)

4. Panda Baby (Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. Ltd.)

5. Syrutra (Syrutra International Inc.)

6. Gucheng (Shanxi Gucheng Dairy Co. Ltd.)

7. Mengniu (Mengniu Dairy)

8. Hero (Jiangxi Bright & Hero Dairy C)

9. Huimin / HMDP (Baoji Huimin Milk Co. Ltd.)

10. Kocci (Duojiaduo Dairy Industry {Tianjin} Co. Ltd.)

11. Yashili (Guangdon Yashili Group Co. Ltd.)

12. Nanshan Beiyi (Hunan Peiyi Dairy Co.)

13. Heilongjiang (Qinin Dairy Co.)

14. Yashili  (Shanxi Yashili Dairy Co.)

15. Jinbishi (Shenzhen Jinbishi Milk Co. Ltd.)

16. Scient (Guangzhou Shien Dairy Co.)

17. Jinding (Guangzhou Jinding Dairy Co.)

18. Yili (Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co.)

19. Ausmeadow (Ausmeadow Nutriment Co. Ltd.)

20. Suncare (Aikeding – Qingdao Suncare Nutritional Technology Co. Ltd.)

21. Yubao (Xi’an Baiyue Dairy Co. Ltd.)

22. Leilei (Yantai Leilei Dairy Products Co. Ltd.)

23. Baoanli (Shanghai Bao’anli Dairy Co. Ltd.)

24. Hikid (Fuding Chenguan Dairy Co. Ltd.)

 

Beware of these products. Everyone is advised to avoid purchasing / consuming these products.

For the information of those who don’t have the luxury to watch television, read the newspaper or hear news on the radio, the Chinese government are now recalling and stopping all exportation and recalling certain products with milk because of the findings that those products contained the chemical Melamine.

 

Scientifically speaking, Melamine is being used with formaldehyde to produce very durable plastic. Actually, we do have some plastic saucer and plate in our house and Melamine was indicated on the back portion, meaning it was made from Melamine. So, how in the world is this chemical being used to make plastic is also the same compound being used in producing milk to be consumed by babies and adults alike?!

 

According to one source, this chemical is sometimes illegally added to food products because of its high-protein content. Also, it was said that it is non-toxic if induce in low content, but if it was combined with a certain cyanuric acid, then it could be fatal kidney stones because its protein content cannot be absorb by the body.

 

Before the scandal in milk in China, there was a previous animal feed recall last 2007, and the source of this was some traces melamine in pet food.

 

The scandal now involving milk and infant formula from China with Melamine content infamously gained worldwide attention. There were reportedly 53,000 people that became ill and four infant deaths already.

 

It was said that Melamine was added after water to increase it’s milk volume. This indicated a false increase in protein and nitrogen levels in the milk.

 

I received an email regarding the current news about the products that has milk contents from China. This explained how you can be sure that will not be fooled in buying milk goods from China. You will need to check the first 3 digits on the bar code.

 

If you see the bar code starting of with 690, 691 or 692, then definitely it was made in China.

 

If you see 471, then it was made in Taiwan, and it is safe to consume.

 

Everyone must be aware and vigilant about this. Some businessman will still try to fool people in order to get good profits in the expense of the health of their buyers.

 

I also received another email in regards to the updated list of milk products that were tested by the Bureau of foods and Drugs (BFAD) a branch of the Department of Health (DOH) in the Philippines.

 

Here is the excerpt of the email:

 

Department of Health (DOH) released a statement earlier today (October 3, 2008) that of the 30 milk brands that were already tested by Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD), two are only positive as containing melamine. Two brands are GREENFOOD YILI FRESH MILK and MENGNIU DRINK which have labels written in Chinese characters.

 

Here is the partial list of other products which are were found NEGATIVE for melamine content (total of 28 products):

 

Anchor Lite Milk
Anlene High Calcium, Low Fat Milk
Bear Brand Instant
Chic Choc Milk Chocolate
Farmland Skim Milk
Jinwei Drink
Jolly Cow Pure Fresh Milk
Kiddie Soya Milk Egg Delight
Lactogen 1 DHA Infant Formula
M&M Milk Chocolate Candy
M&M Peanut Chocolate Candy
Milk Boy
Nestagen 2 DHA Follow-up Formula
Nestagen 3 DHA Follow-up Formula
Nido 3 Plus Pre-bio with DHA
Nido Full Cream Milk Powder
Nido Junior
No Sugar Chocolate of Isomalt 2 Oligosaccharide (cocoa butter substitute)
Nutri Express Milk Drink
Pura Fresh Milk
Snickers (roasted in caramel nogut in thick milk chocolate)
Vitasoy Soya Milk Drink
Wahaha Orange
Wahaha Yellow
Want Want Milk Drink
Windmill Skim Milk Powder
Yinlu Milk Peanut
Yogi Yogurt Flavor Milk Drink

 

Complete list will be released by BFAD on Tuesday, October 7.