<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Khong Guan, Pokka products safe
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore has said that Pokka and Khong Guan products here are safe, in the wake of regional food scares surrounding these products.
In a statement released late last night, the food safety authority said it has tested products manufactured by Pokka in Singapore, and biscuits manufactured in Singapore including those of Khong Guan, for melamine contamination.
Both types of products have produced 'satisfactory' results.
This means that either melamine has not been detected at all in the products, or that the products contain only minute trace levels well within the limit of 5 parts per million (ppm).
Wire agencies yesterday reported that Vietnam has found melamine in three milk products manufactured in a Singapore factory run by a subsidiary of Japan-based Pokka Corp. They were made using Australian milk ingredients.
The products are milk melon, cappuccino coffee and milk coffee.
Separately, Malaysia announced that it had found excessive melamine in some biscuits produced under the Khong Guan and Khian Guan brands. The contamination was traced to a raising agent, ammonium bicarbonate, which was imported from China.
The AVA said yesterday that ammonium bicarbonate is an approved food additive in Singapore. It added that it has also checked biscuits and crackers imported from Malaysia, and has so far found them to be satisfactory as well.
It also confirmed yesterday that the Republic is not affected by the bean scare which hit Japan. On Wednesday, Japan ordered green beans grown by Chinese firm Yantai Beihai Foodstuff off the shelves after a woman fell ill from eating a product that had 34,500 times the legal level of pesticide.
The AVA said Singapore does not import the implicated brand of beans, or any beans from Yantai. It added that it regularly screens French beans for the pesticide in question, Dichlorvos. None of the products here has failed the test so far. China said yesterday that criminal elements were probably responsible for pesticide found in the beans, and cleared Yantai of any wrongdoing.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore has said that Pokka and Khong Guan products here are safe, in the wake of regional food scares surrounding these products.
In a statement released late last night, the food safety authority said it has tested products manufactured by Pokka in Singapore, and biscuits manufactured in Singapore including those of Khong Guan, for melamine contamination.
Both types of products have produced 'satisfactory' results.
This means that either melamine has not been detected at all in the products, or that the products contain only minute trace levels well within the limit of 5 parts per million (ppm).
Wire agencies yesterday reported that Vietnam has found melamine in three milk products manufactured in a Singapore factory run by a subsidiary of Japan-based Pokka Corp. They were made using Australian milk ingredients.
The products are milk melon, cappuccino coffee and milk coffee.
Separately, Malaysia announced that it had found excessive melamine in some biscuits produced under the Khong Guan and Khian Guan brands. The contamination was traced to a raising agent, ammonium bicarbonate, which was imported from China.
The AVA said yesterday that ammonium bicarbonate is an approved food additive in Singapore. It added that it has also checked biscuits and crackers imported from Malaysia, and has so far found them to be satisfactory as well.
It also confirmed yesterday that the Republic is not affected by the bean scare which hit Japan. On Wednesday, Japan ordered green beans grown by Chinese firm Yantai Beihai Foodstuff off the shelves after a woman fell ill from eating a product that had 34,500 times the legal level of pesticide.
The AVA said Singapore does not import the implicated brand of beans, or any beans from Yantai. It added that it regularly screens French beans for the pesticide in question, Dichlorvos. None of the products here has failed the test so far. China said yesterday that criminal elements were probably responsible for pesticide found in the beans, and cleared Yantai of any wrongdoing.
