Jolly Cow, Yili & Mengniu positive for melamine; 21 others cleared by DOH

Today, Health Secretary Francisco Duque announced that Jolly Cow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk (1 liter), a product of People’s Republic of China (PROC), had tested positive for melamine which is locally distributed by Flying Ace Corporation. It had a melamine level of 4 parts per million. Melamine is not allowed as a food additive in any food product, DOH said.

On the other hand, Secretary Duque cleared 21 other dairy products that had tested negative for melamine.

The 21 dairy products cleared by the DOH of melamine contamination are:

1. Anmum Materna Milk Powder Chocolate Flavor (400g)
2. Bear Brand Choco (300g)
3. Bear Brand Sterilized Milk (200ml)
4. Cadbury Choclairs
5. Carnation Calcium Plus Non-fat Milk Powder
6. Klim Instant Full Cream Milk Powder
7. Milk Chocolate Bar (40g)
8. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
9. Monmilk Hi-calcium Low fat milk (1L)
10. Monmilk Deluxe Pure Milk
11. Nestle Chocolate Flavor Ice cream
12. Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk
13. Nestle Fresh Milk (1L)
14. Nestle Kitkat
15. Nestle Milk chocolate (40g)
16. Nestle Pops Ice cream
17. Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice cream
18. Nestogen 1 DHA
19. Nesvita Cereal Milk Drink
20. Blue Tree Express Milk Drink or Green Apple Flavor (500ml)
21. Prime Roast Instant Nutritious Cereal (28g)

Other two Chinese milk products tested positive for melamine last week were Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk and Mengniu Drinks.