Singapore is not immune to China food scandal. Already, the popular Magnum ice cream is identified as containing milk ingredients from China. Other than it being toxic to children and pets, not one have studied how melanmine interact when it is cooked and served to unwary consumers. For now, no for food or snacks derived from milk from local food manufacturers. Unless they tell us where they get the milk solids from.
Cows in China are bred for meat and not for milk. With small farming family with a few cows, its simply too expensive and a health and logistical nightmare to collect all the milk. No wonder enterprising middlemen found a way to add water and melanmine to enrich itself. Luckily this scandal heads off the possibility of cows eating disease animal parts. Like what English farmers did to their cows, feeding them with brains of sheep which died from brain disease.
In many ways, our desire for cheap and low quality food has done ourselves in. Manufacturers placed huge orders for China made milk.
Same as honey. The next food scandal. China has no large tracts of land with flowers for honey production. How did they become another large honey exporter. Honey, included those laden with pesticides are simply added with water, microfiltered out to remove any traces of toxic chemicals as well as nutrients, evaporated back into "honey". That is why so many honey added snacks are sold nowadays. China made honey is cheap! If you are a honey lover. Stick to jars produced in Australia or New Zealand.
Its best not to rely on AVA. Those guys simply do not have the resources to assess food imported into Singapore. Instead, spend time finding out about the food you eat. What the labels means and whether it is hiding something.
Cows in China are bred for meat and not for milk. With small farming family with a few cows, its simply too expensive and a health and logistical nightmare to collect all the milk. No wonder enterprising middlemen found a way to add water and melanmine to enrich itself. Luckily this scandal heads off the possibility of cows eating disease animal parts. Like what English farmers did to their cows, feeding them with brains of sheep which died from brain disease.
In many ways, our desire for cheap and low quality food has done ourselves in. Manufacturers placed huge orders for China made milk.
Same as honey. The next food scandal. China has no large tracts of land with flowers for honey production. How did they become another large honey exporter. Honey, included those laden with pesticides are simply added with water, microfiltered out to remove any traces of toxic chemicals as well as nutrients, evaporated back into "honey". That is why so many honey added snacks are sold nowadays. China made honey is cheap! If you are a honey lover. Stick to jars produced in Australia or New Zealand.
Its best not to rely on AVA. Those guys simply do not have the resources to assess food imported into Singapore. Instead, spend time finding out about the food you eat. What the labels means and whether it is hiding something.
The whole nation is an absolute disgrace and should be nuked from the face of this earth.
