No Melamine Dairy Products in Vietnam
VIET NAM - The Chief of the Food Hygiene and Safety Agency, under the Health Ministry, Nguyen Cong Khan has reported that the local dairy market is now safe.
17 December 2008
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The announcment from the Food Hygiene and Safety Agency follows nearly two months of probing the market to reject non-origin dairy products and those that were infected with melamine from the market.
Nearly 438 tonnes of melamine-contained milk was seized.
Of this, 17.4 tonnes were destroyed (mainly Chinese YiLi brand), 13 tonnes (Malaysian cakes) were re-exported, and 104 tonnes ware returned to owners after Viet Nam issued the tolerable melamine level in food.
In addition, 167 tons of non-origin milk was treated under Vietnamese law. The Health Ministry also tested 1,266 dairy samples, detecting 32 samples that were positive to melamine.
Mr Khan said the dairy market is now safe, without non-origin products. He added that dairy product importers and traders have paid more attention to product quality after the Health Ministry announced a tolerable melamine will become a criterion for food.
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