TESTS have found the chemical melamine in a Japanese brand of made-in-China cheesecake, the city's Centre for Food Safety said.
Lotte Cream Cheese Cake is manufactured by Japan's Lotte China Foods in mainland China.
On Tuesday, the centre said it found melamine in Pocky Men's coffee cream coated biscuit stick, which is produced by Ezaki Glico of Japan.
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IN AUSTRALIA
Cookies recalled after taint reported overseas
AUSTRALIAN food regulators recalled a popular line of chocolate-filled cookies yesterday, the third product withdrawn from the country's stores.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand said it was recalling Lotte Koala Biscuits as a precaution following overseas reports that they were contaminated with melamine.
Last week, food regulators recalled Chinese-made Cadbury chocolate eclairs and White Rabbit candies.
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IN THAILAND
'Acceptable levels' of melamine in milk
THAILAND is testing nearly 100 imports from China for possible melamine contamination and has found traces of the chemical in milk powder, health officials said yesterday.
Tests on two samples of Shuangwa Full Cream Milk Powder found levels of melamine legally acceptable for human consumption, said the Thai Food and Drug Administration.
It has cleared the product for sale in Thailand along with 32 other made in China products that were tested and showed no trace of melamine, including M&Ms, Snickers bars, Oreo wafer sticks and Dove Milk Chocolate Bars.
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IN SOUTH KOREA
Toxic chemical found in Ritz cheese crackers
TWO more Chinese-made food products - including Ritz crackers - were found to contain high levels of melamine, South Korean investigators said on Tuesday.
The chemical was found in Nabisco's Ritz cracker cheese sandwiches and in rice crackers made by Danyang Day Bright, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said. Melamine has now been found in six imported products in South Korea. South Korea has banned imports of all Chinese-made food products containing powdered milk.
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IN THE NETHERLANDS
Koala cookies recalled, risk of illness 'small'
TWO types of Chinese-made biscuits have been withdrawn from the Dutch market after being found to contain raised levels of melamine, the food safety authority said.
Chestnut and chocolate flavoured biscuits of the Chinese Koala brand were found to contain a concentration of melamine higher than the allowed 2.5mg per kg. The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority stressed that the risk of illness was 'extremely small'.
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IN RUSSIA
Import ban on Chinese foods containing milk
RUSSIA banned imports of all Chinese milk or food containing milk on Tuesday, RIA news agency quoted the head of state consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying.
Rospotrebnadzor's head Gennady Onishchenko said Moscow was concerned that imported Chinese food containing milk could also contain melamine, but it had so far received no official information from Beijing.
'This unclear situation...forces us to take extreme measures,' he said.
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IN THE UNITED STATES
Heinz won't buy milk from HK and China
US FOOD group Heinz said on Tuesday that it had decided to stop buying Chinese milk for use in its products there.
'In order to reassure consumers about the safety of Heinz products, Heinz has made the strategic decision to switch our milk supply in China and Hong Kong to non-Chinese sources and we are testing all dairy ingredients for melamine prior to use in our factories,' a spokesman for the company said.
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