• Milk and Milk Products Tested for the Presence of Melamine (as of 21 October 2008)

The list item entitled Milk and Milk Products where Melamine was not Detected (Released 07 Oct 2008, posted 08 Oct 2008) has Anmum Materna Milk Powder (Chocolate Flavor) 400g on it.

So now we know the BFAD says Anmum Materna does not contain melamine. Phew! Why so specific? What about the other flavors? What about the other sizes aside from 400g? Do we take the BFAD’s word for it? What about redundant testing (like a second opinion) by another body, such as the WHO? With one question answered, here I am coming up with follow-up questions. Am I just being a paranoid father-to-be?

Note about the BFAD website: it sucks. Okay, so maybe that was harsh. Shall I just say that the website is quite, erm, “nostalgic”, “old-school”, or “outdated”? Perhaps their budget is limited and their website is not a priority. That’s fine by me, as long as they do a good job at making sure the “food and drugs” available here are safe. There’s also the other possibility of them having a considerable website budget, but the sub-standard output is the result of “other or inflated expenses”.

Sound familiar? Just last year, it was made public that Chinese White Rabbit Creamy Candies contain FORMALIN!

Meanwhile, the public is advised not to buy these products nor consume them. BFAD Chief Leticia Gutierrez said the ban will remain in effect until BFAD releases results of the tests in October.

Products that have tested positive for melamine have been announced almost daily in countries like Malaysia and Singapore. Why not yet in the Philippines? There is speculation that the Philippine government is still in the process of purchasing melamine testing kits/equipment.

Here’s the partial list of milk/dairy products that are to be tested for melamine from China; there are 56 so far:

1. Anchor Lite Milk
2. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Mango Magic
3. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Orange Chill
4. Anchor Wam Froot Milk Drink Strawberry Spin
5. Anlene Milk
6. Anmum Materna 180 g
7. Anmum Materna Chocolate
8. Dutch Lady Pure Milk
9. Farmland Skim Milk
10. Green Food Yili Pure Milk
11. Jinwei Drink
12. Jolly Cow Pure Fresh Milk
13. Jolly Cow Slender Low Fat Milk
14. KLIM instant full cream milk 1.8kg
15. M&M Chocolate Brown 40g
16. Meiji Hokkaido Azuki (Red Bean Ice Cream)
17. Meiji Ujikintoki (Red Bean and Green Tea Frozen Confection)
18. Mengniu Original Drink Milk
19. Mengniu Pure Milk
20. Milk Chocolate Bars/China
21. Milk Chocolate Candies/China
22. Milk Boy repacked
23. Milk Boy repacked
24. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
25. Monmilk High Calcium Low Fat Milk
26. Monmilk High Calcium Milk
27. Monmilk Milk Deluxe Pure Milk
28. Monmilk Pure Milk
29. Monmilk Suan Suan Ru Sour Milk Beverage (mango flavor)
30. Natural Choice Milk Ice Bar
31. Nespray
32. Nestle Carnacion Calcium Plus non fat milk powder 1.6 kg
33. Nestle Chocolate Flavor Ice Cream cone
34. Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk
35. Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice Cream Cone
36. Nutri Express Milk
37. Nutri Express Milk 15 Nutritional Elements (Blue, Red and Orange label and cap)
38. Nutri Express Milk
39. Nutri Express Milk Green Apple
40. Prime Roast Cereals 28g
41. Pura Fresh Milk
42. Snickers brown 59 grams
43. Strawberry Sorbet
44. Trappist Dairy Low Fat Yogurt Drink
45. Vita Fresh Milk
46. Wahaha Orange
47. Wahaha Yellow
48. Want Want milk drink
49. Yili High Calcium 250ml
50. Yili High Calcium Milk 1 liter
51. Yili High Calcium Low fat milk beverage
52. Yili Low Fat Milk 1 liter
53. Yili Milk
54. Yili Pure Milk 250 ml
55. Yili Pure Milk 1 liter
56. Yinlu Milk Peanut

I am convinced that there is a sinister plot for Chinese products to kill us all. Be it by dairy products containing melamine, candy that has formalin, toys with paint lined with lead, or unsafe cars (driving a Cherry QQ on a freeway = death wish). What’s next?

However, let’s not blame the Chinese. They have demonstrated that they are, in fact, very democratic by also consuming their own deadly products. It’s the CIA, I tell you! Operation: Global Population Control. It’s to cull the number of the masses and keep the ruling class in control.

Related links:
BFAD releases list of banned milk products… [FinanceManila]
BFAD lists 56 products under lab test for possible melamine contamination [GMANews.TV]
BFAD net yields a mixed catch [Malaya]
BFAD names 54 Chinese milk products for testing [Inquirer.Net]

I just accidentally drank Anmum (milk for pregnant mothers). What are the consequences? I don’t want to have a baby.

Best Answer – Chosen by Voters:

You’ll accidentally [get] pregnant. Congratulation[s]!

Other juicy answers:

• No escape this time ’round.
• …it shows dat u have brilliant brain
• you need to take some pill
• u will lose ur koo koo bird
• next time, go to giant supermarket faster and buy condom before drinking the Anmum..
• the stuff from the milk will stimulate the hormone-stuffs that will produce more milk for the baby and the father
• …you’ll produce so much breastmilk they’ll leak all the way out!

So anyway, it turns out that the local Anmum distributor imports from New Zealand. I hope testing is done on all products here that might have dairy ingredients from China. On the consumer level, the best we can do is educated guessing and avoidance of using products that may have Chinese dairy ingredients.

Could this all be part of a sinister plot for world domination via infanticide? It is a modern-day slaughter of the innocents. More likely, the persons involved in approving the use of melamine in dairy products from China obviously just did not or do not care if it was safe. It’s a business and the bottom line is profit – but at what cost?

Update: A temporary ban/hold on dairy or milk products that might contain melamine has been imposed by the Philippine government yesterday (I didn’t get the memo). Testing is in the works, sort of. Read more: Avoid ‘Made in China’.

Related link:
I just accidentally drank Anmum (milk for pregnant mothers).What are the consequences,i don’t want to have a baby [Yahoo! Answers]