In response, a DOH official who declined to be identified said that since the incident involving King Car Industrial Co (金車) last month, health authorities have been randomly checking certain materials for traces of melamine.
When they found that ammonium bicarbonate sold by local suppliers contained melamine, they traced the contamination back to Sesoda, the official said.
On Sept. 21, King Car recalled 120,000 cases of three-in-one instant coffee and instant soup products after it discovered the products contained a melamine-spiked non-dairy creamer produced by Zhongshi Duqing (Shandong) Biotech Co, located in Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province.
The DOH called an inter-agency meeting yesterday afternoon with the Consumer Protection Commission, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Council of Agriculture, the Straits Exchange Foundation and other agencies to discuss measures to assist companies find substitutes for ammonium bicarbonate or importing ammonium bicarbonate from countries other than China.
Melamine-contaminated milk and baby formula has killed at least four babies and sickened thousands of children in China.
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