Things to Remember

The Philippine government via the Department of Health (DOH) is ensuring that products coming into the country from China must be free from melamine contamination. The DOH is testing milk, chocolate, ice cream and dairy imported products and byproducts, even testing cosmetic products for possible overdose of melamine levels.

The United States’ Food and Drugs Administration and the European Food Safety Authority have pegged the tolerable daily intake for melamine at .5ppm and .63ppm.

Here is a list of products safe from melamine:

Anmum Materna Milk Powder Chocolate Flavor (400g)
Bear Brand Choco (300g)
Bear Brand Sterilized Milk (200ml)
Cadbury Choclairs
Carnation Calcium Plus Non-fat Milk Powder
Klim Instant Full Cream Milk Powder
Milk Chocolate Bar (40g)
Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
Monmilk Hi-Calcium Low Fat Milk (1L)
Monmilk Deluxe Pure Milk
Nestlé Chocolate Flavor Ice cream
Nestlé Dairy Farm Pure Milk
Nestlé Fresh Milk (1L)
Nestle Kitkat
Nestlé Milk chocolate (40g)
Nestlé Pops Ice Cream
Nestlé Vanilla Flavor Ice cream
Nestogen 1 DHA
Nesvita Cereal Milk Drink
Blue Tree Express Milk Drink or Green Apple Flavor (500ml)
Prime Roast Instant Nutritious Cereal (28g)

Put on hold are 22 brands of infant milk powder identified by the Philippine Embassy in Beijing, China to contain melamine. Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk and Mengniu Drink, found to have high traces of melamine.

In the watchlist are Sanlu (Shijiang Sanlu Group Co.), Panda Baby (Shanghai Panda Dairy Co., Ltd.), Syrutra (Syrutra International Inc.), Gucheng (Shanxi Gucheng Dairy Co, Ltd.), Hero (Jiangxi Bright & Hero Dairy C), Huimin/HMDP (Baoji Huimin Milk Co. Ltd.), Mengniu (Mengniu Dairy) and Kocci (Duojiaduo Dairy Industry (Tianjin) Co. Ltd.);

Yashili (Guangdong Yashili Group Co. Ltd.), Nanshan Beiyi (Hunan Peiyi Dairy Co.), Heilongjiang (Qining Dairy Co.), Yashili (Shanxi Yashili Dairy Co.), Jinbishi (Shenzen Jinbishi Milk Co. Ltd.), Scient (Guangzhou Shien Dairy Co.), Jinding (Guangzhou Jinding Dairy Co), Yili (Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co.), Ausmeadow Nutriment Co. Ltd.), Suncare Aikeding, (Qingdao Suncare Nutritional Tech Co. Ltd.), Yubao (Xi’an Baiyue Dairy Co. Ltd.), Leilei (Yantai Leilei Dairy Products Co. Ltd.), Baoanli (Shanghai Bao’anli Dairy Co. Ltd.), and Hikid (Fuding Chenguan Dairy Co. Ltd.).