The Bureau of Food and Drugs on Friday finally released a partial list of 54 milk and milk-based products from China which it said would be subject to testing, a day after it issued an order temporarily banning such products coming from the Chinese mainland.
The list also included products which the BFAD said were manufactured outside China but possibly had milk ingredients sourced from China.
The list which BFAD issued contained names of famous brands like Nestle chocolate flavor ice cream cone, M&M chocolate and Snickers.
The products on the list would be tested for the presence of the industrial chemical melamine, which was found in milk products in China. Four children have died and about 55,000 others have fallen ill in China after drinking milk tainted with melamine.
Department of Health officials gave conflicting answers when asked if all of the products on the list were banned, at least temporarily.
BFAD policy, planning and advocacy officer in charge Virginia Francia Laboy said: “They are considered banned in compliance with the order issued by Secretary (Francisco) Duque, which banned all infant formula and milk products from China.”
Asked if well-known chocolate and ice cream products were included in the ban, Laboy said: “We don’t want to refer to specific brands.”
Health Undersecretary Alex Padilla, however, said only milk products on the list were banned. Asked about the chocolate and ice cream products, Padilla said: “They are just for testing.”
The list also included products which the BFAD said were manufactured outside China but possibly had milk ingredients sourced from China.
The list which BFAD issued contained names of famous brands like Nestle chocolate flavor ice cream cone, M&M chocolate and Snickers.
The products on the list would be tested for the presence of the industrial chemical melamine, which was found in milk products in China. Four children have died and about 55,000 others have fallen ill in China after drinking milk tainted with melamine.
Department of Health officials gave conflicting answers when asked if all of the products on the list were banned, at least temporarily.
BFAD policy, planning and advocacy officer in charge Virginia Francia Laboy said: “They are considered banned in compliance with the order issued by Secretary (Francisco) Duque, which banned all infant formula and milk products from China.”
Asked if well-known chocolate and ice cream products were included in the ban, Laboy said: “We don’t want to refer to specific brands.”
Health Undersecretary Alex Padilla, however, said only milk products on the list were banned. Asked about the chocolate and ice cream products, Padilla said: “They are just for testing.”
The following is the partial list of milk and other milk products collected by BFAD for testing for the presence of Melamine as of Sept. 26, 2008:
1. Anchor Lite Milk
2. Anchor Warm Frootmilk Drink Mango Magic
3. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Orange Chill
4. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Strawberry Spin
5. Anlene Milk
6. Anmum Materna 180g
7. Anmum Materna Chocolate
8. Dutch Lady Pure Milk
9. Farmland Skim Milk
10. Greenfood Yili Pure Milk
11. Jinwei Drink
12. Jollycow Pure Fresh Milk
13. Jollycow Slender Lowfat Milk
14. KLIM Instant Full Cream Milk Powder (1.8 kg)
15. M&M Chocolate brown 40 gm
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. Milkboy repacked
23. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
24. Monmilk High Calcium Low Fat Milk
25. Monmilk High Calcium Milk
26. Monmilk Milk Deluxe Pure Milk
27. Monmilk Pure Milk
28. Monmilk Suan Suan Ru Sour Milk Beverage (Mango Flavor)
29. Natural Choice Milk Ice Bar
30. Nespray
31. Nestlé Carnation Calcium Plus Non Fat Milk Powder (1.6 kg)
32. Nestlé Chocolate flavor Ice Cream Cone
33. Nestlé Dairy Farm Pure Milk
34. Nestlé Vanilla Flavor Ice Cream Cone
35. Nutri-Express Milk
36. Nutri-Express 15 Nutritional elements (blue, red and orange label and cap)
37. Nutri-Express Milk Green Apple
38. Prime Roast cereals 28g
39. Pura Fresh Milk
40. Snickers brown 59gm
41. Strawberry Sorbet
42. Trappist Dairy Low Fat yogurt drink
43. Vita Fresh Milk
44. Wahaha Orange
45. Wahaha Yellow
46. Want Want MIlk Drink
47. Yili High Calcium 250ml
48. Yill HIgh Calcium Milk 1L
49. Yili High Calcium Low fat milk Beverage
50. Yili Lowfat Milk 1L
51. Yili Milk
52. Yili Puremilk 250ml
53. Yili Puremilk 1L
54. Yinlu Milk Peanut
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