Updates on the milk issue -- Philippines

Early this afternoon, I received an email containing a list of milk and milk products banned by the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) for melamine contamination. Then a few hours later I did a search on updates on the issue and found a news report on abscbnnews.com containing a list of 56 milk and milk products banned by the BFAD because these were still undergoing testing for melamine contamination. I'm posting both lists here. The first is the email, followed by the news report from ABS-CBS News:


Here is a list from the UP Chem Dept., these products have been pulled
out by BFAD:
Subject: Melanine Tainted Products - Updated List
Products Recalled - Melanine Contaminated

BRAND ITEM/DESCRIPTION

1 BAIRONG GRAPE CREAM CRACKERS

2 DOVE H/NUT ALM & RAISIN CHOC

3 DOVE HAZELNUT CHOC

4 DOVE MILK CHOCOLATE

5 Dreyers Ice Cream Cake

6 Dreyers Ice Cream

7 DUTCH LADY Sterilized milk (all flavors)

8 FIRST CHOICE CALCIUM CRACKERS

9 GINBIS PARTY ANIMAL BUTTER BISC

10 Koala Cocoa Biscuit 40g

11 KRAFT OREO WAFER STICKS 18S

12 Lotte Koala Cocoa Funpack 210g

13 M & M Chocolates Plain and Peanut

14 MEIJI Chocolates

15 MEIJI FAMILY PACK-GREEN TEA

16 MENTOS BOTTLE YOGHURT

17 Monmilk BREAKFAST MILK MALT

18 Monmilk HI CAL LOW FAT

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BFAD bans 56 milk products

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abs-cbnNEWS.com | 09/26/2008 5:53 PM

The Bureau of Food and Drugs on Friday released a partial list of milk and other milk products undergoing testing for possible melamine contamination.

In an interview on radio dzMM, BFAD chief Leticia Barbara Gutierrez urged the public not to purchase the following products until the bureau finishes its tests.

"We are going to test if these are positive for [melamine]. Some of these used milk sourced from China. These are the samples that we have collected but there's always the possibility that these could be negative," Gutierrez told radio dzMM.

"This is the advice of the [Department of Health]. Wag na muna silang bilhin," she added.

She said the ban will remain in effect until BFAD releases results of the tests in October.

Below is the partial list:

1. Anchor Lite Milk

2. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Mango Magic

3. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Orange Chill

4. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Strawberry Spin

5. Anlene Milk

6. Anmum Materna 180 g

7. Anmum Materna Chocolate

8. Dutch Lady Pure Milk

9. Farmland Skim Milk

10. Green Food Yili Pure Milk

11. Jinwei Drink

12. Jolly Cow Pure Fresh Milk

13. Jolly Cow Slender Low Fat Milk

14. KLIM instant full cream milk 1.8kg

15. M&M Chocolate Brown 40g

16. Meiji Hokkaido Azuki (Red Bean Ice Cream)

17. Meiji Ujikintoki (Red Bean and Green Tea Frozen Confection)

18. Mengniu Original Drink Milk

19. Mengniu Pure Milk

20. Milk Chocolate Bars/China

21. Milk Chocolate Candies/China

22. Milk Boy repacked

23. Milk Boy repacked

24. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage

25. Monmilk High Calcium Low Fat Milk

26. Monmilk High Calcium Milk

27. Monmilk Milk Deluxe Pure Milk

28. Monmilk Pure Milk

29. Monmilk Suan Suan Ru Sour Milk Beverage (mango flavor)

30. Natural Choice Milk Ice Bar

31. Nespray

32. Nestle Carnacion Calcium Plus non fat milk powder 1.6 kg

33. Nestle Chocolate Flavor Ice Cream cone

34. Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk

35. Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice Cream Cone

36. Nutri Express Milk

37. Nutri Express Milk 15 Nutritional Elements (Blue, Red and Orange label and cap)

38. Nutri Express Milk

39. Nutri Express Milk Green Apple

40. Prime Roast Cereals 28g

41. Pura Fresh Milk

42. Snickers brown 59 grams

43. Strawberry Sorbet

44. Trappist Dairy Low Fat Yogurt Drink

45. Vita Fresh Milk

46. Wahaha Orange

47. Wahaha Yellow

48. Want Want milk drink

49. Yili High Calcium 250ml

50. Yili High Calcium Milk 1 liter

51. Yili High Calcium Low fat milk beverage

52. Yili Low Fat Milk 1 liter

53. Yili Milk

54. Yili Pure Milk 250 ml

55. Yili Pure Milk 1 liter

56. Yinlu Milk Peanut

Gutierrez earlier advised the public to avoid all milk products with the "made in China" or PROC, initials for People's Republic of China, marks.

She added that Filipino consumers should also avoid infant formula and other milk products that have Chinese characters.

Department of Health (DOH) and BFAD inspectors have been taking out Chinese milk products in markets around the country. Samples had also been brought to BFAD laboratories for melamine content testing.

The two agencies have issued memorandum orders banning the sale and distribution of all Chinese milk products in the country.

Other importing countries have also banned Chinese milk products as the Chinese government conducted a crackdown on all milk manufacturers that are using the toxic chemical melamine.

Over 50,000 Chinese babies have been reported sickened due to infant formula milk products that are contaminated with melamine.

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