Date: 10/5/2008 12:00 AM
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana banned the import of all Chinese milk products after food inspectors found possibly contaminated evaporated milk for sale at a local market, the health ministry said Saturday.
Inspectors are scouring supermarkets across the country to pull all Milky-brand evaporated milk products, acting on a warning by Chinese officials who said the product could contain melamine, Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said.
“We have not done any tests, but we are acting purely on what we have been told by the Chinese,” he said.
Two unregistered importers brought the product into Guyana from neighboring Suriname, where all Chinese-made dairy products were banned late last month, the ministry said.
No one has been reported sick in Guyana.
Guyana joins at least 13 other countries in banning Chinese dairy products after melamine-tainted milk formula was found to have killed four infants and sickened more than 54,000 children in China. The chemical is known to cause kidney failure.
Melamine, which is used to make plastics and fertilizer, is thought to have been added to Chinese milk to boost its levels of protein.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
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