Swiss find melamine in Thai, Sri Lankan biscuits

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities say they have found high concentrations of melamine in biscuits from Thailand and Sri Lanka and have called on other European countries to withdraw the products.

Authorities in the canton (state) of Geneva say tests have shown high melamine levels in the Thai biscuits Milk Cookies S&P and the Sri Lankan candies LemonPuff Munchee.

Melamine in milk has been blamed for the deaths of four infants and for sickening more than 54,000 others in mainland China.

The authorities said in a statement Monday that the European distribution channels for the two biscuits have been identified.



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Yikes!

So it's not just China anymore...

[thunder rising]

1. There must be a new recipe book out there, "1000 Healthy Ways to Dispose of Melamine"

It's not just for breakfast anymore.

[bean fidhleir]

2. It's still China. Capitalistic "profit über alles" is a shared tapeworm in Asia

The Asian grocery I shop at for East-Asian food is owned by a Korean woman and her Ami husband. She naturally stocks from Korean suppliers as much as possible, but has begun to feel fearful about where THEY are getting their supplies from. We were chatting about the horror stories coming out about China and she confided that she's actually started having stomach pains from the anxiety.

[amdezurik]

3. but hey we are being told it is all an "accident"

after all there is no way Ou friend China would stuff this crap in to make it look like watered down milk has more protein then it really does and who cares who it kills...right? After all profits are GAWD....

[Warpy]

4. They probably used Chinese milk powder in the manufacture

of those biscuits. Melamine is used to boost the protein content so that the more expensive product can be diluted.

China is going to have to ban the importation and production of melamine if it wants to be trusted again.

[rucognizant]

5. And in Ohio........

Archway cookies factory.....just shut down. (CNN)
A shame..........used to be the only kind I bought. Then after the '87 stock market crash, hostile takeover of my generation by the boomers, ( the beginning of the climb from CEO pay, 40% more then employees toward 400% higher than employees.) S& L, Keating, & reagan/bush recession.......................they changed the recipes and the cookkies didn't taste as good, so I stopped buying them.
WHY? bottom line, more profit if you cut back on butter or use something else.
Catering to the demigraphics, thus listening to some statistician, selling them as fat free, low calorie......probably the beginning of experimenting with additives...........
Almost 20 years later, if I want tasty cookies I hve to make them my self, and Archway is going out of business.
180o away from the way "commonwealth" is supposed to work! I'd rather spoend my time doing artwork ( what I am good at) and
buy my cookies from someone else.

[Coventina]

6. I'm still mouring the loss of Mother's.

Goodbye Circus Animal Cookies!

:cry:

[Art_from_Ark]

8. That does it

I'm not wittingly buying any more made-in-China food.
I don't care if it is cheap, like that big jar of blueberry jam I just bought that had a friggin' stone in it! :argh:

[FarCenter]

7. A company in China was selling malamine as "protein powder"

"In the first quarter of last year, the Chinese company, Xuzhou Anying, was advertising dust of melamine as something it called "ESB protein powder" on the global market trading website, Alibaba. "The latest product, ESB protein powder, which is researched and developed by Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., Ltd... Contains protein 160 - 300 percent, which solves the problem for shortage of protein resource," it boasted."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/china_melamine_scare

Do not buy products that are fortified with protein powder, e.g. various power bars, protein bars, protein supplements...