Total recall of Chinese dairy products
It’s another recall news again after a year of high lead content found in children toys, but this time is about tainted dairy products. Needless to say they are from Mainland China again. I wonder if those people were totally out of their mind during the production. Dairy food and drink products are people most common daily diet. The latest problems are directly related to human health. Four infants dead, 12,892 sick after drinking baby formula contained content of melamine. Hong Kong reported one case of illness this afternoon. H.K. parents are taking their kids for check up in the local hospitals. The long line is clearly seen outside of every hospital. This issue is spreading around the world, not just Mainland and Hong Kong. Taiwan and N.Z are also included. Local Starbucks Coffee is also involved as they use dairy products that made in China.
Products include milk powder, pure milk, yogurt, coffee and any kind of food and drinks that related to dairy products. Brands include Nestle, Mr. Brown Coffee and some other Chinese dairy product brands. Most of the major international dairy product brands are now also having their samples for testing in the laboratories because most of them are also manufactured in China. Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.
Fortunately, the milk product brand I did drink very often, the result was released yesterday that they are fine.
Production issue of Mainland China is slowly releasing year by year - toys, textile, pet food, tin food, pork, seafood, dairy products, furniture, and what else? Perhaps, vegetables, fruits are coming….who knows?
If they didn’t concern of their quality assurance issues, they would ruin the local economy. Foreign investors are now still having production plants in China, but once they found somewhere else with good cost and sufficient labour force then they could make their moves.
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I’m a U.S. citizen and businessman from California, but living and doing business full time the past 4+ years in China and Hong Kong.
Our 2 year old son was a victim of the melamine milk here in China. Although he did not die he has ingested and passed huge quantities of the melamine during a 10 month period finally resulting in a kidney stones not just powdery urine.
The U.S. Embassy was great to find a “high standard” clinic near the Consulate for diagnosis, but what now?
The symptoms were amazingly varied and really could have been many things. Now we know and it was confirmed today at the clinic.
No one knows “what now”. What will happen to him? What are treatments must he undergo? …no one has tried to kill children before using melamine.
Hi Barry,
Thank you for your sharing. I am sorry to hear that your son was a victim of the melamine milk.
For what you mentioned is exactly what happened in China. The Chinese authority usually don’t announce to the public until it becomes very serious. You had been to the “high standard” clinic, but it doesn’t mean that the responsible person would take your incident as a serious case that needs to be reported immediately. This is the major disaster of China in many aspects of issues. They like covering the facts and truth until those are inevitably to be discovered and usually by the time those issues being found already too late. They don’t see things as major, and always minor. What the western press always point out is exactly this attitude of China, but it seems they need to take ages to realise the consequences. They have to experience many negative issues, and being critised, then start to do something for it. Certainly, no one tried to kill children before such case happened. It just proves that quality assurance of Chinese products is in danger situation. It has never been to the agenda for serious application.
Btw, are you still in China? Don’t you think you need to take your son out of China for treatment? I won’t believe the local hospital facilities. You can take your son to H.K. for treatment. Ours are reliable.
Hi Barry,
I did add your site on the page of “Other blogs” on my blog. How can I become member of yours to make comment and such on your site? can’t find the way…Cheers!
Hi Barry,
sorry for your son.
Nothing occur without a reason …
Sometimes we are called to suffer what we have
imposed to others.