Thailand's S&P recalls cookies nationwide

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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — One of Thailand's most popular bakery chains, S&P, said Tuesday it was recalling all its packaged cookies from stores nationwide after Swiss authorities said they found high concentrations of melamine in the Thai biscuits.

"S&P will pull all its cookies from its 280 outlets nationwide as a precautionary measure," said Witoon Sila-on, vice president of business development at S&P Syndicate PCL.

Swiss authorities on Monday said that tests of Milk Cookies S&P found high melamine levels and called on other European countries to withdraw the products.

Witoon said the company had never exported its cookies to Switzerland and questioned where the sample came from. But he said the company would submit samples to Thailand's Food and Drug Administration to determine "whether our cookies are safe for consumption."

Witoon said the cookies in question included milk powder that was imported from Australia and did not use milk powder from China.

Melamine in milk has been blamed in the deaths of four infants and for sickening more than 54,000 others in mainland China.

Milk with heavy melamine content seized ;

The Public Health Ministry's Food and Drug Administration has seized canned unsweetened condensed milk manufactured by a Thai firm from shelves throughout the country after they found heavy melamine contamintion.

Deputy Public Health Minister Vicharn Minchainant said on Wednesday the Mali brand milk product was contaminated with melamine far in excess of acceptable safety standards

seizure was made after the was informed by the ministry's Medical Sciences Department that tests found Mali brand condensed milk tins weighing 385 grammes with the expiry date of 160109 and manufactured by Thai Milk Industries Co Ltd to be melamine-tainted.

According to Mr. Vicharn, the particular lot of Mali milk contained 92.82 mg/kg of melamine, far exceeding the maximum safe level of 2.5 mg/kg.

Mali milk as well as other products using similar raw materials were recalled from stores nationwide, he said.

FDA officials visited the company's factory in Ayutthaya. The company said it imported raw materials from Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, Germany and India.

Mr. Vicharn said the company's owner could face a maximum two years in prison, a fine of 20,000 baht or both.

The FDA earlier collected samples of 10 products for tests, with six testing as having acceptable levels. Three other product results are yet to be released.

The tainted milk scandal began in China, where four babies have died and about 54,000 infants became ill from melamine in baby formula. (TNA)

Milk products coming from China and Taiwan having problems!!!

We can check to see where the products are made from
by looking at the first three digits of its bar code.

If the 1st 3 digits are 690, 691 or 692 - the products are China-made.
If the 1st 3 digits are 471 ? then it is Taiwan-made