Heinz baby cereal named in milk scandal
CHINA'S toxic milk scandal escalated today as one of the nation's famous candy brands was pulled off shelves and four more people outside the mainland were thought to have fallen ill.
The industrial chemical melamine has also been found in Heinz baby cereal and in potato crackers in the southern Chinese territory of
Hong Kong and officials ordered a recall of the products.
In China, the maker of White Rabbit candy, given to US president
Richard Nixon on a landmark 1972 trip, said it was halting domestic sales after its products were found to contain melamine, normally used to make plastic.
A hospital in Taiwan said three young children who frequently visited China had developed kidney stones after drinking tainted Chinese milk formula.
The mother of one of the children had also developed kidney stones, the
National Yang-Ming University Hospital said.
The only other five cases of children falling ill from drinking tainted milk outside the mainland have so far been reported in Hong Kong, where authorities said they had ordered a recall of two more tainted products.
Hong Kong's Centre for
Food Safety said it had ordered retailers to pull Heinz DHA+AA Vegetable Formula Cereal and
Silang House of
Steamed Potato Wasabi Cracker from their shelves
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