Kazakhstan has no melamine-containing products

Astana, 8 October 2008, (Khabar) - Kazakhstan's sanitary service claims no melamine-containing products found.

Cadbury has announced that confectionery they supplied to the CIS markets
does not contain any hazardous agents, including melamine. Previously, it
was reported that Cadbury chocolate, with traces of melamine and produced in
Beijing, was found in China. According to the Cadbury Company, they supplied
the CIS market only with chocolate products produced in Russia, adding that
none of its components was produced in China. Kazakhstan's sanitary service
did not find any cases of supplying and selling dairy products and
confectionery containing China-produced ingredients with a corresponding
statement made by the deputy chairman of the Republic Sanitary and
Epidemiological Inspection Committee, Albert Askarov. He also added that the
sanitary service always controls imported products in order to not let any
merchandise containing hazardous ingredients reach the Kazakhstan market.
Earlier this year, dairy products containing melamine caused poisoning of
over 50 thousand children in China, 4 of whom died. Meanwhile, Albert
Askarov stated that the Republic sanitary committee is constantly monitoring
the Kazakhstan market. In the event some suspicious products are found, the
structure's laboratories are ready to perform all necessary melamine tests.

Albert Askarov, deputy chairman, Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological
Inspection Committee
- According to up-to-date information, neither children's dairy products nor
other merchandize containing melamine and made in China have yet been found.
We are now also checking the Dirol Cadbury Company. But, as far as I know,
the CIS market is filled with this type of product produced in the Novgorod
region of Russia. The same product produced in Beijing has neither been
found in Kazakhstan nor in the CIS.