Australia's food regulator says the withdrawal of a chocolate product by Cadbury, is a sign the food regulation system is working well.
At Cadbury's head office in Birmingham company officials said the deadly chemical melamine was found in tests carried out on several of its products made at its Beijing plant.
Those products exported to Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan have now been recalled.
The recalled products include Cadbury Eclairs and bulk packets of Dairy Milk chocolate.
In Australia only eclairs have been recalled from the shelves.
Daniel Ellis from Cadbury says the eclairs are the only product the company imports from its Chinese factory to Australia.
"There've been some initial tests and we've reason to believe that there is concern in relation to that product from this testing," he said.
"However, the detailed testing is still coming through so we don't have any more detail other than that, we just know that this product has come out of the Chinese factory, we have some concerns about the integrity of the product."
It is the latest fallout from the toxic milk scandal that made 53,000 Chinese babies ill and claimed four infant's lives.
A spokeswoman for Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Lydia Buchtmann, says it is working with state and Territory regulators to check all products containing dairy from China and last week recalled a brand of imported lollies.
She says Cadbury has acted cautiously as the products contained only a very small amount of the chemical.
"It's quite a low health risk, you'd have to eat an awful lot of lollies consistently, probably over several weeks to have an effect of ill health," she said.
"The melamine affected babies, of course because they're very small and the only thing they could consume was infant formula, but with something like a lolly, a healthy child it would have to be constantly eating over quite a period of time."
At Cadbury's head office in Birmingham company officials said the deadly chemical melamine was found in tests carried out on several of its products made at its Beijing plant.
Those products exported to Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan have now been recalled.
The recalled products include Cadbury Eclairs and bulk packets of Dairy Milk chocolate.In Australia only eclairs have been recalled from the shelves.
Daniel Ellis from Cadbury says the eclairs are the only product the company imports from its Chinese factory to Australia.
"There've been some initial tests and we've reason to believe that there is concern in relation to that product from this testing," he said.
"However, the detailed testing is still coming through so we don't have any more detail other than that, we just know that this product has come out of the Chinese factory, we have some concerns about the integrity of the product."
It is the latest fallout from the toxic milk scandal that made 53,000 Chinese babies ill and claimed four infant's lives.
A spokeswoman for Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Lydia Buchtmann, says it is working with state and Territory regulators to check all products containing dairy from China and last week recalled a brand of imported lollies.
She says Cadbury has acted cautiously as the products contained only a very small amount of the chemical.
"It's quite a low health risk, you'd have to eat an awful lot of lollies consistently, probably over several weeks to have an effect of ill health," she said.
"The melamine affected babies, of course because they're very small and the only thing they could consume was infant formula, but with something like a lolly, a healthy child it would have to be constantly eating over quite a period of time."
Source : http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/30/2377465.htm?section=business
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