Chinese Milk Products Can Do Harm To Humans
The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) temporarily holds the sale of milk products in the Philippines that came from major Chinese dairy companies such as Mengniu Dairy Co and Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group due to suspected melamine contamination. BFAD Director Leticia Gutierrez said the bureau is still conducting tests on locally distributed Yili and Mengniu products after melamine-contaminated milk from China left thousands of infants hospitalized. The milk samples will undergo tests to determine if they are positive for melamine contamination. It will take a couple of weeks to know the results, she added.
Meanwhile, Melamine is an organic compound that is often combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a synthetic polymer which is fire resistant and heat tolerant. There were also reports that thousands of Chinese children get ill in which melamine is known to use as an agricultural pesticide in China and may have been part of our food chain for a long time. It can cause kidney stones and other renal damage. Symptoms of melamine intake include decreased frequency of urination as well as presence of blood in urine. But some experts were uncertain and still conducted scientific studies as to what this means for human health, or for people who may have been exposed to the chemical over the long term, albeit in very small amounts each time.
As part of BFAD’s routine spot inspection and in coordination of Chinese government’s quality watchdog had released an initial list of milk manufacturing companies suspected of using melamine and momentarily banned them in distribution of their products.
The tentative lists of Chinese companies are as follows:
1 Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co
2 Shanghai Panda Dairy Co Ltd
3 Synutra International Inc
4 Shanxi Gucheng Dairy Co Ltd
5 Jiangxi Bright & Hero Dairy Co
6 Baoji Huimin Milk Co Ltd
7 Mengniu Dairy
8 Duojiaduo Dairy Industry (Tianjin) Co Ltd
9 Guangdong Yashili Group Co Ltd
10 Hunan Peiyi Dairy Co
11 Heilongjiang Qining Dairy Co
12 Shanxi Yashili Dairy Co Ltd
13 Shenzhen Jinbishi Milk Co Ltd
14 Guangzhou Shien Dairy Co
15 Guangzhou Jinding Dairy Co
16 Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co
17 Ausmeadow Nutriment Co Ltd
18 Qingdao Suncare Nutritional Technology Co Ltd
19 Xi’an Baiyue Dairy Co Ltd
20 Yantai Leilei Dairy Products Co Ltd
21 Shanghai Bao’anli Dairy Co Ltd
22 Fuding Chenguan Dairy Co Ltd
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