It is very depressing to hear that human is taking advantage (making money) at the expenses of others' life. Where is our humanity and conscience? Sichuan's earthquake has awakened millions of people in the world that human is kind, compassionate and helpful! During the catastrophic, not only cash was pouring in including from the hands of street beggars, volunteers and missionary activists were also physically there to save as many human lives as possible in the shortest period.

Nevertheless, China Milk Scandal reported recently tainted with melamine extremely disappoint us. Where is our lesson learned when melamine were already reported in pet food imported from China in 2007? What happen to our ethic and integrity? Shall the life of these infants be penalized and at stake due to your greed of achieving higher protein level in your products? This torture to the innocent ones is the cruelest crime to human race!

Melamine or its IUPAC name 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine, is an organic base with chemical formula C₃H₆N₆. Since it is only slightly soluble in water, when it is illegally used in milk industry, melamine will be dissolved in formaldehyde (carcinogenic/cancer causing) or other organic solvents before mixing into the milk!

Although melamine by itself is nontoxic in low doses, but when combined with cyanuric acid (at times, present in drinking water) it can cause fatal kidney stones/urinary problems. Below is some references of the melamine tainted food. All these references are received via email and I am consolidating for the sharing purpose. I urge all the food authorities to work with WHO to compile and share a complete list of banned food or recalled melamine tainted products to protect the life of innocent consumers.

According to an email received, the following food are recalled from shelves in Singapore:
1  M&M
2  Snickers
3  Mento's Yoghurt Bottle
4  Dove Chocolate
5  Oreo Wafer Sticks
6  Dutchlady Sterilised Milk
7  Wall's all natural mango
8  Mini Poppers Ice Cream
9  Magnum Ice Cream
10 Moo Sandwich Ice Cream
11 Mini Cornetto
12 Youcan Ice Cream

A longer list that includes brands and descriptions of melamine tainted food products recalled provided by Food Technology Research Centre in MARDI, Malaysia:
1   BAIRONG  GRAPE CREAM CRACKERS
2   DOVE H/NUT ALM & RAISIN CHOC
3   DOVE  HAZELNUT CHOC   
4   DOVE  MILK CHOCOLATE       
5   Dreyers Choc Cake Ice Cream 887ml
6   Dreyers Choc Cake Ice Cream 887ml
7   Dreyers Cookie & Cream Ice Cream 887ml
8   Dreyers Cookie & Cream Ice Cream 887ml
9   Dreyers Mint Chip Ice Cream 887ml
10 Dreyers Mint Chip Ice Cream 887ml
11 Dreyers Rocky Road Ice Cream 887ml
12 Dreyers Rocky Road Ice Cream 887ml
13 Dreyers Strawberry Ice Cream 887ml
14 Dreyers Strawberry Ice Cream 887ml
15 Dreyers Toast Almond Ice Cream 887ml
16 Dreyers Toast Almond Ice Cream 887ml
17 Dreyers Vanilla Ice Cream 887ml
18 Dreyers Vanilla Ice Cream 887ml
19 DUTCH LADY  STER M LF BANANA
20 DUTCH LADY  STER MK LF PLAIN
21 DUTCH LADY  STER MK LF CHOC
22 DUTCH LADY  STER MK LF SBERRY
23 DUTCH LADY  STER M LF HNYDEW
24 DUTCH LADY  STER M LF HNYDEW
25 DUTCH LADY  STER MILK PLAIN
26 DUTCH LADY  STER MK LF CHOC  
27 DUTCH LADY  STER MK LF SBERRY      
28 DUTCH LADY  STER M LF BANANA
29 FIRST CHOICE   CALCIUM SESAME CRACKERS
30 FIRST CHOICE   CALCIUM SALTINE CRACKERS
31 FIRST CHOICE   CALCIUM S ONION CRACKERS
32 FIRST CHOICE   CALCIUM SEAWEED CRACKERS
33 GINBIS PARTY ANIMAL BUTTER BISC
34 GINBIS PARTY ANIMAL SEAWEED BIS
35 GINBIS PARTY ANIMAL CNUT   
36 GINBIS ANIMAL BISCUIT      
37 Koala Cocoa Biscuit 40g
38 Koala Cocoa Biscuit 40g
39 KRAFT OREO WAFER STICKS 18S  
40 KRAFT OREO WAFER STICKS 5S  
41 KRAFT OREO W/STICK WH CHOC 18S
42 KRAFT OREO W/STICK WH CHOC 5S
43 Lotte Koala Cocoa  Funpack 210g 
44 Lotte Koala Cocoa  Funpack 210g
45 M & M Chocolate Peanut 200g
46 M & M Chocolate Peanut 200g
47 M&M  CHOC CANDIES PLAIN%
48 M&M  CHOC CANDIES PEANUT%
49 M&M  CHOC CANDIES-PLAIN
50 M&M  CHOC CANDIES-PEANUTS 
51 M&M  FUNSIZE MILK    
52 M&M  FUNSIZE PEANUT   
53 M&M Chocolate Candies Plain 200g
54 M&M Chocolate Candies Plain 200g
55 MEIJI     UJIKINTOKI 2978        
56 MEIJI     UMAKABO CHOCOLATE
57 MEIJI     FAMILY PACK-GREEN TEA
58 MEIJI CHESTNUT & REDBEAN  
59 MENTOS  BOTTLE YOGHURT PROMO PK
60 MENTOS  BOTTLE YOGHURT 
61 Monmilk BREAKFAST MILK MALT
62 Monmilk BREAKFAST MILK WALNUT 6S
63 Monmilk BREAKFAST MILKMALT 6S
64 Monmilk CHOCOLATE MILK 6S 
65 Monmilk COFFEE MILK 6S  
66 Monmilk HI CAL LOW FAT  
67 Monmilk HI CAL LOW FAT MILK 
68 Monmilk HI CAL LOW FAT MILK 6S
69 Monmilk HI CAL MILK 
70 Monmilk HI CAL MILK 6S   
71 Monmilk MILK DELUXE 12S    
72 Monmilk PURE MILK
73 Monmilk PURE MILK
74 Monmilk PURE MILK 6S  
75 MonmilkBREAKFAST MILK WALNUT  
76 NABISCO  IN A BISKIT CHICKEN 
77 NESTLE NES D/STICK MINI VANILLA
78 NESTLE NES DISTICK MINI CHOCO  
79 NESTLE MILK & BERRY STARS CRL 
80 NO FRILLS  WAFER BLUEBERRY    
81 NO FRILLS  WAFER CHOCOLATE      
82 NO FRILLS  WAFER PEANUT      
83 Orion Fresh Pie 138g 
84 Orion Fresh Pie 138g  
85 Orion Tiramisu 138g
86 Orion Tiramisu 138g 
87 PEI TIAN CREAM BISCUIT          
88 Rabbit Milk Sweet 150g
89 SILANG  NATURAL OAT CRACKER 
90 Snicker Candies Funsize 240g
91 Snicker Candies Funsize 240g
92 SNICKERS PEANUT CHOCOLATE%   
93 SNICKERS SNACKSIZE BARS PNUT 5
94 TAKE ONE BABY BITES 24S  
95 TAKE ONE BABY BITE CK VG 
96 TAKE ONE BABY BITE CARROT   
97 Vitasoy Chocolate Drink 4s 125ml 
98 Vitasoy Chocolate Drink 4s 125ml
99 Vitasoy Melon Soya Bean Milk 4s 125ml
100 Vitasoy Melon Soya Bean Milk 4s 125ml
101 Vitasoy Q Soya Milk 4s 125ml 
102 Vitasoy Q Soya Milk 4s 125ml
103 WANT WANT   MILK CANDY     
104 Want Want Flavoured Milk 250ml
105 Yili Hi Cal Low Fat Milk 1L
106 Yili Hi Cal Low Fat Milk 6s 250ml
107 Yili Hi Cal Milk 1L
108 Yili Hi Cal Milk 6s 250ml 
109 Yili Pure Milk 1L
110 Yili Pure Milk 6s 250ml  
111 Youcan Masterbean Multipack 
112 Youcan Passion Multipack
113 Youcan Silk Sliced and Passion Strawberry
114 Youcan Stawberry Multipack
115 Youcan Traditional Sesame Multipack 4s
116 Youcan Unusual Multipack 4s 

To identify the save milk products including milk powder/beverages/milk added food listed by Malaysia Health Ministry (MOH), please refer to the Food Safety and Quality Division of MOH official website periodically.

Some simple tips:
1. Check the label of the milk products. They shall includes food that contained milk in smaller quantity as well like beverages, yogurt, cheese, soya milk or cookies.
2. If you have doubt of the products like cake, bread or candy, stop eating or buying them. Better be safe than sorry.
3. Read, check out and keep abreast with the latest news.
4. If possible, breast fed your baby.
5. Search for alternative protein or buy safe raw food e.g. tofu or meats and cook/eat at home. 

All of us shall work together once again to boycott all the tainted and adulterated with melamine's products without compromise as our world does not have place for these criminals!

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written by frances cirille , October 03, 2008

i hope that melamine products shoul be taken away (all melamine product),mathers/buyers should be aware in buying milk product or food that without label because the one that has no label it might be made from china and the other one it may contain melamine,i hope this won't happend again becase i read in the news that 54,000 childrens died because of this kind of dangerous product (melamine)

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written by J , October 04, 2008

Someone should compile a total list of all unsafe products (like here, but more widely advertised). There is no complete list of unsafe products anywhere! This is a good start.

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written by trisha villegas , October 06, 2008

thank you for the list of melamine-tainted products...
my question is does the milk GREEN FIELD contaminated with melamine?

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written by trisha villegas , October 06, 2008

i hope that melamine products will continuosly be banned to all the countries so that there are no more people who will die or be poisoned by this toxics....
for me we should be more careful in buying our foods because we dont know whether it is good or bad to our health... so we should think twice before we buy these things... it might be contaminated with this melamine....

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written by Shirley T , October 07, 2008

Hi Trisha, My suggestion is to check with the local food authority of your residing country as each country could be sourcing raw material from different location. If in US, please ring or check with FDA via:http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01895.html or main site: http://www.fda.gov/

And you can always come back here and share with others what you have found out.

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written by Ibrahim , October 09, 2008

Oh! Oh my! I think.. I ate some of those o_O Well...Ill stop eating those lol!

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written by TFF , October 10, 2008

you know what? i live in china somewhere pretty rural andthe sad thing is people are still selling these contaminated products here because no one here has access to news.

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written by KS , October 10, 2008

Thanks for the list. I am wondering about 4 categories of milk-related food products. Can any one enlighten me on these?

1. 3-in-1 coffee and white coffee packets produced in Malaysia or other places in southeast asia.

Where do they import the creamer they use in these widely-available coffee products? Have there been a systematic check of their products for melanine, whether done in Malaysia or Singapore?

2. Coffee creamers produced in Thailand. Because of AFTA, packaged food products such as Nestle creamers in Malaysia are imported from Thailand. While creamers are non-dairy by nature, the contents include protein solids that can be contaminated by melamine. Has Nestle Thailand and other producers given any public assurance that their production in Thailand do not use any problematic Chinese-sourced materials?

3. Condensed milk produced in Thailand. It seems Thailand has emerged as a successful packaged food producers. Condensed sweetened milk is another widely used product. It's is reconstituted from milk powder and protein solid. The same question as item 2 above applies.

4. Fern Leaf milk powder produced outside of China. Fonterra (spelling?) is the owner of Fern Leaf milk powder which quality I like. Fonterra is also the partial foreign owner of the problematic Sanlu milk producer in China. But Fonterra is also the whistle blower (sort of) on China's melamine problem. I would tend to continue to trust Fern Leaf products if they are marked as "Product of New Zealand." But is this trust of mine misplaced?

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written by KS , October 10, 2008

But this press release by the Malaysian Ministry of Health left a lot of ambiguity in locally produced or imported creamer. It is in Malay language and the quality of the report left a lot to be desired.

http://fsq.moh.gov.my/uploads/kenyataan_akhbar_ke_12.pdf

It said Pizza Hut Taiwan's cheese packet was made of 2 ingredients: Cheese powder and creamer. The cheese powder imported from NZ was cleared (by whom?). The creamer supplied (but not made?) by a Malaysian firm was also supplied to many local 3-in-1 instant coffee and instant cereal makers, "and others." The creamer was also analyzed in Malaysia and CLEARED from contamination.

This is in contradiction with Taiwanese reports that the creamer appears to be the problem.

So what caused the conflicting report that the creamer is or is not contaminated?

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written by marwa , October 18, 2008

how about kelloggs special k 90 calories bars? they're made in england..how do i know if these r contaminatedor not?

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written by girl , November 03, 2008

is dutch Lady 123 have Melamine ???

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written by Diana WG , November 11, 2008

I recently purchased Kellogg's Special K protein plus cereal. I have noticed that sometimes I feel nauseous after eating the cereal..
The first thing I did was try and determine if Kellogg's manufactures its cereals in China.. Yes, they have plants there.
I looked over the ingredients soy products etc... are listed, and a variety of simple to complex compounds.
I'm very concerned about all the products out there in the USA and elsewhere that may contain melamine but are normally not targeted. In otherwords the non-dairy products such as cereals etc... Special K does contain the gluten, etc... which I believe was partially to blame for the dog food disaster last year???
The Special K protein plus has 10 g of protein listed.

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