Melamine, Fake Milk, Hong Kong
16 09 2008The China fake milk (laced with melamine) problem continues to grow. Now it has been reported that another large producer YiLi has problems with their yogurt ice cream. In Hong Kong according to Bloomberg, Wellcome stores has pulled all of Yili’s Natural Choice Yogurt Ice-bar with Real Fruit after finding that the product was produced with melamine. All other products from Yili for the moment remain unaffected.
Why do they use the melamine? What is the attraction? They like to use it because the melamine mimics protein, and can have give it a boost, making it appear as the protein content is higher. Higher protein at the risk of our infants, a great trade off??
On another note Fonterra a 43% shareholder of Sanlu, the first to be discovered using the melamine in powdered milk, is apologizing to China consumers and promises to recall all milk product produced prior to August 6.
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