BFAD finds Formalin in China candies
Four candy brands manufactured in
The Department of Health (DOH) and the Bureau of Food and Drugs urged the public “to refrain from buying and consuming” White Rabbit Creamy Candy, Milk Candy, Balrong Grape Biscuits and Yong Kang Foods Grape Biscuits in an advisory signed by BFAD director Leticia Barbara-Gutierrez.
The BFAD urged importers, distributors and other establishments selling the candies to withdraw them from the market until there is evidence that they are safe and fit for human consumption.
Despite this development,
In a statement, the Chinese Embassy said food exports are now safer to consume, noting that tests on more than 3,000 different kinds of foodstuff showed that about 86 percent were up to standard.
White Rabbit candy is manufactured by Shanghai Guan Sheng Yuan Food General Factory, Shanghai and distributed by Cheng Ban Yek & Co. Inc. Milk Candy is manufactured by Romanticfish Food Industry Co., Inc., Fujian with no licensed distributor.
Balrong Grape Biscuits is manufactured by Dongguan Balrong Foodstuff Co. Ltd. and distributed by Goodway International Trading Corp., while Yong Kang Foods Grape Biscuit is manufactured by Dongguan Yongkang Food Co. Ltd. with no licensed distributor. Both products are manufactured in
The products were among the goods randomly collected by the DOH and BFAD from the market after the Chinese government shut down 180 food factories in
Prior to this, some countries in North and
The BFAD had already requested its counterpart in
The Chinese embassy reiterated that significant quality improvement is attributed to stricter supervision and the implementation of a market access mechanism.
But
The embassy said products from different processing companies including milk, beer, jelly, fruit juice, milk powder, canned goods, and dried foods and nuts indicated in the tests that they were getting safer.
Ji Zhengkun, director of the administration’s quality inspection department, said the proportion of food products tested and qualified was the highest in recent years.
Tests from January to June, Ji said, showed that 89.3 percent of beer products met required standards, 5.2 percent of dried food and nuts were also up to standard.
Inspectors did not find any excessive use of food additives, a common problem in dried food.
For those that did not qualify, Ji said irregular labeling was mainly to blame.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said, “
Industrial oils, acid, cancer-causing chemicals and other dangerous ingredients have been found in thousands of foods in
China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said more than 23,000 tainted or sub-standard foods were found and 180 food manufacturers closed in the crackdown from December last year to May.
Some of the industrial products found in food included formaldehyde, an emabalming chemical, and hydrochloric acid, which was found in some beef products.
Other materials detected included industrial paraffin, which was found in vermicelli, and the dye malachite green, which can be carcinogenic.
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