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A FORENSIC unit to keep a lookout for atypical food contaminants will be set up by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) to enhance food-safety checks here.
National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan revealed this during a visit to the AVA lab in Lim Chu Kang yesterday. The latter is now a test site for the industrial chemical melamine, which has been detected in food.
As of Tuesday, the AVA has detected melamine in 10 food products imported from China. They are:
- New Sshmallows Mallow Dippers - Strawberry Flavour
- Silang House of Steamed Potato - Potato and Tomato Crackers
- Silang House of Steamed Potato - Potato Crackers
- Dutch Lady Banana Flavoured Milk
- Dutch Lady Honeydew Flavoured Milk
- Dutch Lady Strawberry Flavoured Milk
- Xu Fu Ji Puffed Rice Rolls - Butter Corn Flavour
- Xu Fu Ji Puffed Rice Rolls - Cheese Flavour
- Yi Li Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yogurt Flavoured Ice
Confection
- White Rabbit Creamy Candies
These items are no longer on the shelves as they had been removed, along with other made-in-China products containing dairy. Supermarket chain Giant has pulled two items that are not made in China, but which contain China dairy ingredients. They are Pei Tian Cream Biscuit from Taiwan and Mosn Mosn Grape Juice from Thailand. Cold Storage has also pulled Swanson Chicken Broth, which is made in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, after a series of new tests, 15 more Chinese dairy companies were identified yesterday as producing milk products contaminated with melamine.
Hong Kong's food-safety agency said its tests have found melamine in a Japanese brand's Chinese-made cheesecake. The Centre for Food Safety said a sample of Lotte Cream Cheese Cake manufactured by Japan's Lotte
China Foods Co Ltd in mainland China has been found to contain melamine.
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