Taipei City’s Health Department yesterday said traces of melamine were found in 10 more types of Nestle and Klim milk powder manufactured in China, and it demanded stores pull the products from shelves.
The Executive Yuan’s Department of Health had found traces of melamine in six types of Nestle milk powder and ordered a recall of 20 products last week — following random tests by local health bureaus — and expanded the scale of tests to include more products.
Chiang Yu-mei (姜郁美), director of the Taipei Health Department food and drug division, said the results of the latest round of random tests came in yesterday.
A total of 16 types of Nestle and Klim milk powder, including the six types already pulled from shelves, contained between 0.06 parts per million (ppm) and 0.85ppm of melamine.
All the tainted products were made by the Shuangcheng Nestle company in Heilongjiang Province and had been pulled from shelves, she said.
Nine types of Nestle milk powder imported from the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the Philippines tested negative for melamine and were therefore not recalled, she said.
The national Department of Health had earlier raised the acceptable level for melamine content in food to 2.5ppm, but later decided to employ its most sensitive testing method — liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) — to check for melamine.
LC-MS/MS can detect melamine levels as low as 0.05ppm, health officials said.
Chiang said yesteday that his division would continue conducting random tests on products in stores to ensure public safety.
Health officials can be contacted with questions regarding products at 02-2720-8889, ext. 7077.
Nestle is one of the leading brands for infant and adult milk products. Klim is one of scores of brands owned by Nestle. The Swiss multinational brought the brand in 1998 from the US dairy and chemical company Bordon.
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