Friesland Foods withdraws milk products
Dairy company Friesland Foods is withdrawing three sorts of milk from Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau because ‘they could contain melamine’.
The products – ordinary milk and strawberry and chocolate-flavoured drinks sold under the Dutch Lady brand – were not produced by Friesland Foods itself but by a Chinese company in which it has a 5% stake.
Some 53,000 children in China are now known to have become ill drinking milk contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine.
‘A test in Singapore showed there could be melamine in Dutch Lady milk but a Hong Kong test said that there was not,’ a spokesman told the AD newspaper. ‘We have removed the products as a precaution.’
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