VIGOUR 888 FILLING ROLL BREAD CONTAINS EXCESSIVE MELAMINE

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 (Bernama) -- A type of bread, known as Vigour 888 Filling Roll (Sergestid Shrimp Flavour) produced by a company in China, is found to contain excessive melamine, Health Ministry secretary-general Datuk Mohd Nasir Mohd Ashraf disclosed Wednesday.

He said tests conducted by the ministry's Food Safety and Quality Division
found that the melamine content in the product was 4.71 parts per million (ppm)
while the permissible level set by the ministry was 0 ppm.

"The ministry has identified the product and the company concerned and has
issued a directive to the state health departments to destroy the product.
"The company has also been ordered to withdraw the product from the
market," he said in a statement.

Until Wednesday, 780 food products worth RM769,424.90, have been taken off
the shelves nationwide.

Mohd Nasir said tests conducted by the ministry found 14 more food samples
which met the standard melamine content.

They are Minis Milk Chocolate (M&M's), Peanut Chocolate (M&M's), Leisure
Seaweed Biscuits (Golden Fuji Food), Rice Crackers (Want Want), Chicken Flavour
Cracker (Golden Fuji), Burnedmeat Flavour Biscuit @ Cui Mei Si (Golden Fuji),
Baby Bites Chicken With Vegetable Taste (Baby Bites), Chocolate Cream Biscuits
(Sanwa), Milk Chewy Candy (Want Want), Seaweed Wheat Biscuits (Four Seas), Rice
Crisps BBQ (Daysun), Rice Crisps Sour Cream & Onion (Daysun) and Gula Udang
(KIKI).

He said consumers could contact the ministry's Food Safety and Quality
Division at 03-88833455/88833652/88833503/88833500 between 8am and 9pm for
clarification on the food products.

The public can also surf the ministry's website at http://fsq.moh.gov.my
for more information.

-- BERNAMA