"The FDA said the manufacturing lot of milk, which carries the expiry date of January 16 2009, was found to be contaminated with melamine at the rate of 92.82 milligram per kilogram.
FDA impounded 150,000 cans of the lot and ordered all shops to take the milk from the lot out of their shelves immediately." (The Nation)
From what I've seen in supermarket stores, Mali Unsweetened Condensed Skimmed Milk is sold in tin cans with a Net weight of 405 grams. Its main ingredients are Skimmed Milk Powder 17.7% and Butter Butter 7.8%, but it does not seem to contain any Palm oil. I haven't noticed Mali cans with palm oil formula before, so I guess they might not look the same as in the picture above.
The Mali brand has been sold since many years in Thailand and Mali is commonly used in preparing food, dessert, beverages, bakery and pastry. Mali has been one of my favorite brands all along.
Melamine is making surprise appearances these days, as seen in another report by The Nation after Swiss authorities found a high concentration of melamine in S&P milk cookies from Thailand.
Tough job for the FDA, as it is too busy studying samples of wheat flour, butter, milk-based products, powdered milk and now cookies.
I wish there was a melamine test kit easily available so that I could perform my own testing before munching those cream filled cookies I bought form Indonesia.
