Four milk brands were removed Saturday from the list of milk products that would be subjected to laboratory tests by the Bureau of Food and Drugs after the agency learned that the dairy products did not come from China.
Fonterra, the company that supplies Anchor Lite Milk, Anlene Milk Low Fat, Anmum Materna and Anmum Materna Chocolate in the Philippines, clarified to BFAD that its products were made in New Zealand.
The company was a former part owner of China’s San Lu Group, the company that produced the melamine-contaminated milk.
They clarified the matter with BFAD today and they provided evidence that Anchor, Anlene, Anmum all came from New Zealand," said Alan Fitzmmon, regional director of Fonterra.
Leticia Barbara Gutierrez, head of BFAD, said that the agency reviewed Fonterra’s evidence.
“Then we found out they were manufactured in New Zealand, so we have to delete them from the list," she said.
The Philippines has banned all milk imports from China as a precaution against the spread of melamine-contaminated baby formula that has sickened more than 53,000 Chinese, mostly infants.
Last Tuesday, Gutierrez said that a temporary ban on importation, distribution and sale of infant formula and milk products has been imposed.
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