More Melamine Tainted Eggs in China
December 3rd, 2008 laurie
Looks like the end of the China melamine scandal isn’t coming anytime soon. BBC News reports that authorities in Hong Kong have found melamine in an additional brand of Chinese eggs.
The Centre for Food Safety said it had tested 307 egg samples and found four of them to have almost twice the legal limit of melamine. Scientists had set an allowable limit of 2.5 parts per million of melamine in food, but the latest tests showed the eggs had 4.7 ppm.
The melamine tainted eggs reportedly came from a farm in Dehui City in China’s northeastern Jilin province. According to BBC, the government has asked the importer to stop selling them and is checking where the eggs may have been sold. The products had been distributed to some bakeries but not to any other retail outlets, a spokesman for the centre said.
Meanwhile, six babies have died, and more than a quarter million children in China have been sicked by melamine tainted food.












