Posted by
adotan
18 yrs ago
the local "kooloon bay" brand? (it's the white package with red and yellow).
I read that now they say not only the powder milk is not safe, but also three leading brands of the drinking milk (i just don't know which brands...)
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It was reported products include of ice cream and yoghurt.
They are recalling these items and I wonder do we get a refund if we return their products. Anyone knows?
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i would not buy chinese milk full stop - even before the scare...
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sxc
18 yrs ago
I don't think Kowloon Bay brand is made in China - just in HK and I would hope there are higher standards in HK than China.
However, I usually buy the UHT from Australia or New Zealand. The main reason being I can store the cartons, and its cheaper than fresh milk.
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I'm with Idsllvn. I won't buy Chinese milk. For that matter, I avoid any food from China. There have just been too many scares. I have zero confidence in the Chinese food industry. There seems to be no sense of quality. Sure, there are scares in other countries from time to time, but in China it seems to be a regular event.
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agree with axptguy (as always!!) - there just does not seem to be any control over quality - even in kids milk!!!! how bad is that! every time i buy a toy made in chine (arent they all these days?) - I wonder whether that has lead paint or some other chemical in it!! just would not trust food (eps when it comes to kids) from China...
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The 3 brands were Mengniu, Yili and Guangming. Nestle and Sanyuan products all tested negative.
Kowloon Dairy, Vitasoy and Nestle in HK have all confirmed they use no milk products from the mainland.
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this time around it's not simply a matter of quality control, which implies some degree of laxity in the production process (eg. hey, the 'enter' key on my laptop fell off...poor quality control); what is frightening here is the DELIBERATE addition of melamine by milk suppliers for their own profit...these guys, and i hope they catch them all, should be publicly strung up for every parent in China to have a go at...
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I agree with funbobby.
Unfortunately I also see the problem as going much deeper. There seems to be no concept of "good" and "bad". It is more "what can we get away with". While certainly many Western corporations have done bad things in the name of greed, in the case of China it seems particularly systemic and scruple-less.
Nurturing values are hard to teach to adults. Concepts like compassion, empathy, respect for others despite their faults, generosity, all need to be imprinted during childhood. I don't see it happening in mainland Chinese society today. As long as the government encourages ratting out your fellow man, it will be hard to engender a true sense of community.
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the consumer council tested several milk products. go to their site for further info
http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_en/consumer_alerts/recalls_and_alerts/2008091601.html
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cd
18 yrs ago
My family has been drinking the Menginu milk for about 7 years now, so its probably a bit late worrying whether anythings in it, although according to the above link its tested negative. The only choice of long life milk in our local welcome this afternoon is their First Choice brand, which says it comes from NZ.
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Not looking good for China
First Posted 13:23:00 09/20/2008
TOKYO -- Two employees of a Japanese confectionery company fell sick after eating China-made bean paste in the latest apparent food scare here, police and the firm said Saturday.
The workers at Marusei Honten confectionery in central Nagano prefecture noticed a strange smell like petroleum oil when they opened the five-kilogram (11-pound) package of red-bean paste on Friday, police said.
They tasted it to check on the quality and felt sick soon afterwards, police said.
The employees, a man and a woman in their 30s, complained of numbness in their limbs and were taken to hospital. They were in stable condition, police said.
"Police suspect the food was laced with poison," local police spokesman said.
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wow!!! the problem has existed since a year ago!!!
Doctors remove stone from girl's kidney
RTHK
21-09-2008
A small child was operated on today after developing a kidney stone from drinking contaminated milk. The Hospital Authority revealed this tonight, saying the child had later been discharged. The three and a half year old girl living in Hung Hom had shown no symptoms of illness. But because she'd been drinking two to three cups of the Yili brand high calcium, low fat milk daily for the past 15-months, her parents decided she should have a checkup. The product concerned had earlier been tested by the Centre for Food Safety and found to be adulterated with the toxic chemical, melamine.
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Our household has 0 made in China food items. No way I would deliberately expose my family to the risk of disease from all these nasties your read about in the news. When we first moved to HK we didn't know any better and we ate local food without hesitation but the number of "food poisonings" we had at that time was too dramatic - now we get only imported stuff - yes, for a premium price - but we are a lot more healthy.
I really wish there was a better regulation in place when it comes to food quality.
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Some links to sites that sell imported foods:
https://www.meatmarket.com.hk/
http://www.south-stream-seafoods.com/
http://aussieorganics.com/ (we use this one every week for most of our our produce)
http://www.tenderloin.com.hk/
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The most alarming thing is that global brands that we trust have also been affected. Cadbury milk bars sold in Hong Kong are made in China. It never occurred to me to check where they were made before. I have huge stocks of these which I had planned to use at children's events. Luckily, I never gave many of these out as it has been too hot this summer to be giving out milk chocolates. I was hoping to use them soon when the weather cools but it looks like they're going straight into the bin. Does anyone know if Cadbury and other global brands who are recalling their products will make refunds?
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remember china exports a lot of raw materials too
so even though a product is manufactured or made elsewhere i.e. uk, australia, u.s. , etc etc. the ingredients or raw materials that go into that product may be made in china.
example the red bean paste buns ... made in japan, but the paste is from china
meat from other countries, well are we totally sure that its feed is 100% not from china?
the clothes you wear, where was it manufactured? made in the uk or france you may say but where did the trims come from, the threads?
there has been a recent recall of shoes sold in Italy because of the high toxic chemicals used in the leather from china. however the shoes were labelled - made in italy.
furthermore, as food labels do not itemize the origins of each ingredient, goods made elsewhere in the world does not guarantee that it has zero china ingredient .
im not trying to start an argument but it is food for thought.
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cd
18 yrs ago
Re the cadburys chocolate, you've only got to taste it to realise its not the UK chocolate. Most of the Chocolate here comes from either China or Australia.
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"Re the cadburys chocolate, you've only got to taste it to realise its not the UK chocolate. Most of the Chocolate here comes from either China or Australia."
Thank goodness for Lindt then. ;)
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More tainted products on the banned list!!
Lipton's powdered milk tea and Ritz cheese biscuits are the latest popular products to fall into the tainted category.
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