China Milk Product

Recently we got to know of the news melamine in china milk products. Children drinking the milk get some sort of kidney stones in their kidney.

So actually how safe we are? Let me share with everyone something i knew from the newspaper and what i understand from it.

Basically if we do consumed in very little of melamine into our body, our body still can tolerate it. Refer to my last post and as reported in The Straits Times on 24-Sep-2008, The daily tolerable intake of melamine is calculated as per our weight x 0.63mg of melamine. So meaning if you are 70kg your body can take in 44.1mg of melamine. So is it mean the more weight (fatter) we are, the higher tolerance level we have? I do think so.

And you may wonder how come those little kids can suffer from this. This is as they drink milk powder everyday for many times. That why they suffer from. Unless we drink milk like them for everyday, otherwise i think it shouldnt be so easy for us to get it. The straits time already calculated unless we drink 815ml of Dutch lady milk everyday in our life, we will then get it.

Afew bread companies had already committed that their ingridents doesnt come from China. For bread lovers, it is safe to eat the following brand of breads - Garxxx, Sunxxx. And the breads from the following bakery, BrxTx, Prixxx, Delixxx... If possible at this point of time we tempoarily stick to these brands of breads.

Some may also wonder, news had reported this certain brand of choclates, ice-creams and whatever food had been taken of shelves but why we still seen it in Supermarket. This is because all this food doesnt origin from China. Most liely its from our neighbouring countries, that why it is still safe to eat.

Hope the above information shared will make friends out there not so scare ba. Rest assured, i do believe too, foods imported into Singapore had very strict checks. I will post even more information when i have.

UPDATED AT 1200AM.
Question: What are the symptoms?
Answer: Irrirability and persistent crying especially when passing urine, Pain when passing urine, Fever, Nausea, Vomitting and when urine had blood.
Question: Are adults at risk?
The risk is MUCH LOWER in adults as milk is not our major source of food. Adult kidneys can also FLUSH GREATER MELAMINE from the body.

And 5 more products found to have Melamine. (Bring to a total of 8 now)
Dutch Lady Banana Flavoured Milk
Dutch Lady Honeydew Flavoured Milk
Silang — House of Steamed Potato — Potato Cracker
Puffed Rice Rolls — Butter Corn Flavour
Puffed Rice Rolls — Cheese Flavour.

For enquiries on affected products, consumers can call AVA’s hotline at 6325 7625 on Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 6pm.

For health concerns associated with the ingestion of melamine, consumers can call Ministry of Health’s hotline at 1800 225 4122.