Warning: Do you know what milk products have melamine?
Do you know what products sold in the Philippines have been tested for the presence of melamine?
Last October 3, the Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) posted an advisory on their website on what products have been found positive or negative for melamine.
In the first batch of adisories to be released by the BFAD, two (2) products have so far been found POSITIVE for melamine, which means they are UNSAFE for consumption and should be AVOIDED. These are:
- Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk (in Chinese character)
- Mengniu Drink (in Chinese caharacter)
On the other hand, twenty-eight (28) products have been found NEGATIVE for melamine, which means they are SAFE for consumption. These are:
- Anchor Lite Milk
- Anlene High Calcium Low Fat Milk U.H.T. (recombined)
- Bear Brand Instant
- Chichok Milk Chocolate
- Farmland Skim Milk
- Jinwei Drink
- Jolly Cow Pure Fresh Milk
- Kiddie Soya Milk Egg Delight
- Lactogen 1 DHA Infant Formula
- M&M’s Milk Chocolate Candies
- M&M’s Peanut Chocolate Candies
- Milk Boy
- Nestogen 2 DHA Follow-up Formula
- Nestogen 3 DHA Follow-up Formula
- Nido 3+ Prebio with DHA
- Nido Full Cream Milk Powder
- Nido Junior
- No-Sugar Chocolate of Isomaltooligosaccharide (Cocoa Butter Substitute)
- Nutri-Express Milk Drink
- PURA UHT Fresh Milk
- Snickers Fresh Roasted in Caramel & Soft Nougat in Thick Milk Chocolate
- Vitasoy Soya Bean Milk
- Wahaha Orange
- Wahaha Yellow
- Want-Want Milk Drink (Red Can)
- Windmill Skim Milk Powder
- Yinlu Milk Peanut
- Yogee Yoghurt Flavor Milk Drink
Breast milk is still best for babies!
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Milk, melamine and China-made products – What now?
What milk does your child drink? Our son, CJ, currently drinks NIDO, a milk product produced by Nestle Philippines.
As a parent, the ongoing milk scare brought about by Chinese-made milk that are tainted with melamine, a toxic substance, caused us so much concern.
Our fears have somewhat been allayed by Nestle Philippines’ recent announcement assuring the safety of their milk products.
According to Nestle’s website, the other products that they produce or carry aside from NIDO are the following: BEAR BRAND, NESLAC, NESTOGEN, NESVITA, and NESTLÉ. They also import NAN 1 from the Netherlands, NAN 2 and 3, from Switzerland, and NAN HW 1 and 2 from Germany.
Well, at least that’s one less milk-related item to worry about, now the problem is what of other milk-based products circulating our Philippine markets (pastries, milk snacks, candies, etc)? What do we do now?
I’m sorry, but you can’t blame me if I stay clear of Chinese-made or Chinese-sounding products for the meantime. Melamine-tainted milk, formalin-laced white rabbit candies, toxic lead-laced toy paints and defective christmas lights are more than we can handle for now, thank you.
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Related blog entry:
Warning: Do you know what milk products have melamine?
In the news:
1. Philippine Daily Inquirer: Ban on China milk eyed
2. ABS-CBN News: Nestle assures safety of milk products
3. GMA News: Arroyo orders temporary ban on China-made milk products
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Why commemorative plates in the Philippines are useless
Do you own Philippine commemorative license plates? I bought and used a valid PGH 100 commemorative plate last year but have recently been forced to toss it aside. It’s sad since I can’t even use the dang thing as paperweight!
Ever since the authorities decided to change the rule earlier this year on how these plates should be displayed – you’re now not allowed to superimpose commemorative plates on top of regular plates, but must have both plates visible at the front – you can just imagine how utterly ridiculus the outcome would be depending on the owner’s interpretation of the ruling. You can see some owners forcing the issue by placing the plates either side-by-side, or by setting the commemorative plate literally on the top of the regular one. I guess they wanted to make the most out of their investment, and you can’t blame them. The majority though decided to do away with the commemorative plates altogether, for the sake of aesthetics.
The cops even had a heydey apprehending ”violators” (me included *sigh*) as a result of the new ruling. And a few unscrupulous ones even had the gall to threaten and/or extort bribe money from the poor and unsuspecting, innocent commemorative plate owner.
Given the above, I wonder how the new batch of commemorative plates will fare. Are the new ones worth buying at all? I don’t think so.
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