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Hong Kong: Eggs trigger a new melamine scare |
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November 2008 |
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According
to the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua, Hong Kong's Centre
for Food Safety has asked authorities on the Chinese mainland to examine meat
and egg supplies for traces of melamine, after a batch of eggs were found to
contain 4.7mg/kg of melamine - nearly twice the tolerated 2.5mg/kg of melamine.
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The extra-large
"Select Fresh Brown Eggs" were imported from the Hanwei
Group in Dalian, in the northeastern Liaoning province and were for sale in the Hong Kong supermarket chain, ParknShop.
Hong
Kong authorities have started testing imported eggs, meat and vegetables after
it emerged that cyromazine, a derivative of melamine, is widely used in
pesticides and animal feed in China.
The
Centre for Food Safety said it hoped that testing meat products, including
chicken, in China will establish the source of the contamination.
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