What’s going on in China? First they had contaminated toys, then contaminated air, then contaminated pet food, then contaminated baby milk, and now contaminated sweets. Luckily Israel doesn’t import any foodstuffs from China.

NZ finds high melamine levels in Chinese sweets

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) _ New Zealand’s Food Safety Authority has found the industrial chemical melamine in imported Chinese White Rabbit Creamy Candies and warned Wednesday that people should not eat them.

“This product contains sufficiently high levels of melamine which may, in some individuals, cause health problems such as kidney stones,” deputy chief executive Sandra Daly said in a statement on the agency’s Web site. “The levels we have found in these products are unacceptable.”

Melamine is the chemical that has sickened thousands of Chinese children and touched off a new food scare after it began turning up in milk products. Continue reading →