On 18th Oct., The Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety announced that two samples of Munchy's mini crackers contained excessive melamine and the trade has been asked to stop selling them. The 2 products Munchy's Mini Crackers with Peanut Butter and Munchy's Mini Crackers with Cheese Cream. Both were 45g packs with an expiry date of July 15, 2009. The melamine levels in the samples were 5.4ppm and 3.8ppm. The legal limit for melamine in the concerned products is 2.5ppm.
Quoted from Bernama and The Star online on Monday 20th Oct,
"...Munchy Food Industries chief executive officer C.K. Tan said none of its products contain any dairy-based ingredients from China except from Australia and France. As a reputable 18 year-old homegrown manufacturer of confectionaries with a strong international brand presence, we have consistently view consumer food safety as a top priority. We will continue to uphold this without any compromise," he said. He claimed that independent certification agencies, namely Chemical Laboratory (M) Sdn Bhd and Pacific Lab Services of Zargo (Singapore) had certified its products as safe.
Do you think that the American products will be safer with the stringent FDA guidelines? Dhiren favourite is Cheerios from US. He munches ALOT of that.
2 comments:
Oh....thank God none of you liked that! Can't imagine what to do when you see that one of your all time favourite, just finished eating biscuits was tainted with melamin!
I was eating it the next day. :D
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