Two chocolate products contains more melamine than the city's legal limit
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Hong Kong said Sunday it found two Cadburychocolate products contained considerably more of the industrialchemical melamine than the city's legal limit in a growing scandalover tainted food made in China.
Iran banned imports of all dairy products from China because of thecontamination concerns, state radio reported.
In China, the food safety watchdog said no traces of the melaminewere found in new tests of milk powder sold domestically, asofficials sought to restore public trust in dairy products.
Baby formula containing melamine has been blamed for killing fourinfants and sickening more than 54,000 with kidney stones and otherailments in China.
Chinese authorities suspect suppliers trying to boost outputdiluted their milk, adding melamine because its nitrogen contentcan fool tests measuring protein content.
The scandal has sparked global concern about Chinese food importsand recalls in several countries of Chinese-made products includingmilk powders, cookies and candies.
Hong Kong's food safety agency said samples of two chocolateproducts made by British candy maker Cadbury at its Beijing factorycontained considerably more melamine than the city's legal limit of2.5 parts per million.
The two items were among 11 Chinese-made products that have alreadybeen recalled by Cadbury in parts of Asia and the Pacific.
Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety said Cadbury's Dairy MilkHazelnut Chocolate Bulk Pack contained 56 parts per million ofmelamine, while Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate contained 6.9 partsper million.
Calls to Cadbury offices in London and Asia Pacific went unansweredSunday.
In Iran, the Health Ministry said the ban on imports of dairyproducts from China is in place until further notice, according tostate radio. The ministry is assigning health workers to destroysuspect Chinese dairy products currently on the Iranian market.
China's government has been struggling to contain the damage fromwidespread contamination of milk supplies, castigating localofficials for negligence while promising to keep stores suppliedwith clean milk.
The latest tests of 129 batches of baby formula and 212 batches ofother kinds of milk powder showed they were free from melaminecontamination, the General Administration of Quality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine said on its Web site.
The tests were on baby formula and other kinds of milk powderproduced after Sept. 14, when the scandal broke, the watchdog said.Quality supervisors have been stationed in baby milk powderproduction facilities to oversee the process.
The Agriculture Ministry said it is providing subsidies to Chinesedairy farmers badly hit by declining demand for milk. Many farmershave been tossing out raw milk as they are squeezed by feed coststhey cannot recoup due to waning demand.
The ministry's statement did not give details of the subsidy plan.
Associated Press reporters Dikky Sinn in Hong Kong and NasserKarimi in Tehran, Iran contributed to this report.
Hong Kong said Sunday it found two Cadburychocolate products contained considerably more of the industrialchemical melamine than the city's legal limit in a growing scandalover tainted food made in China.
Iran banned imports of all dairy products from China because of thecontamination concerns, state radio reported.
In China, the food safety watchdog said no traces of the melaminewere found in new tests of milk powder sold domestically, asofficials sought to restore public trust in dairy products.
Baby formula containing melamine has been blamed for killing fourinfants and sickening more than 54,000 with kidney stones and otherailments in China.
Chinese authorities suspect suppliers trying to boost outputdiluted their milk, adding melamine because its nitrogen contentcan fool tests measuring protein content.
The scandal has sparked global concern about Chinese food importsand recalls in several countries of Chinese-made products includingmilk powders, cookies and candies.
Hong Kong's food safety agency said samples of two chocolateproducts made by British candy maker Cadbury at its Beijing factorycontained considerably more melamine than the city's legal limit of2.5 parts per million.
The two items were among 11 Chinese-made products that have alreadybeen recalled by Cadbury in parts of Asia and the Pacific.
Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety said Cadbury's Dairy MilkHazelnut Chocolate Bulk Pack contained 56 parts per million ofmelamine, while Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate contained 6.9 partsper million.
Calls to Cadbury offices in London and Asia Pacific went unansweredSunday.
In Iran, the Health Ministry said the ban on imports of dairyproducts from China is in place until further notice, according tostate radio. The ministry is assigning health workers to destroysuspect Chinese dairy products currently on the Iranian market.
China's government has been struggling to contain the damage fromwidespread contamination of milk supplies, castigating localofficials for negligence while promising to keep stores suppliedwith clean milk.
The latest tests of 129 batches of baby formula and 212 batches ofother kinds of milk powder showed they were free from melaminecontamination, the General Administration of Quality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine said on its Web site.
The tests were on baby formula and other kinds of milk powderproduced after Sept. 14, when the scandal broke, the watchdog said.Quality supervisors have been stationed in baby milk powderproduction facilities to oversee the process.
The Agriculture Ministry said it is providing subsidies to Chinesedairy farmers badly hit by declining demand for milk. Many farmershave been tossing out raw milk as they are squeezed by feed coststhey cannot recoup due to waning demand.
The ministry's statement did not give details of the subsidy plan.
Associated Press reporters Dikky Sinn in Hong Kong and NasserKarimi in Tehran, Iran contributed to this report.
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