Chewy White Rabbit, 3 more China goods laced with formalin - BFAD
07/16/2007 | 09:22 PM
The famous White Rabbit creamy candy — which was once given as a gift to former US President Richard Nixon — and three other food products from China were found to contain the poisonous chemical substance formaldehyde, commercially known as formalin or formol.
The Bureau of Food and Drug (BFAD) came out with the findings, after inspecting for more than two weeks over 600 food products that the Philippines imported from China.
BFAD Deputy Director Joshua Ramos told GMA News’ 24 Oras on Monday that the agency’s report on the findings, signed by Director Barbara Gutierrez and submitted to Health Secretary Francisco Duque, will be used as basis to ban these products made in China.
“We will be issuing a public health advisory, advising consumers to refrain from buying such goods until (these) are proven safe," said Ramos.
The other three products found to be tainted with formalin are a brand of milk candy made by Romanticfish Food Industry, Bairong Grape Biscuits made by Dongguan Bairong Food Stuff Company and distributed by Goodway Int’l. Trading Corp. and Yong Kang Foods Grape Biscuits made by Dongguan Yongkang Food Company, Ltd.
“The distributors will be enjoined to withdraw (these products) from the market until such time that there will be evidence that they are safe," Ramos said.
GMA News said that based on the findings of the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, formaldehyde is linked to fatal diseases such as brain and lung cancer and leukemia.
Formaldehyde-based solutions are used in embalming to temporarily preserve human remains. It is also used for making glue, plastic and disinfectant.
The other kind of White Rabbit candy — the brown and hard one — already manufactured in the Philippines, does not contain formaldehyde, according to BFAD.
The White rabbit with a chewy and soft texture, wrapped in edible paper made of sticky rice is one of China’s top candy brands, manufactured in Shanghai by Guanshengyuan Food, Ltd.
According to an article posted on Wikipedia, the candy, similar to the European nougat, was given as a present to Nixon in 1972, when the then US president visited China. - GMANews.TV
Gosh!!!! What is up with China? There are so many reports about fake, tainted food and other products being export out of China. China's product's safety standards have come under immence criticism with regular reports of fake, shoddy or dangerous goods produced by their food and drug industry.
In the United States, there are tainted pet foods, dangerous toys, drugs, fish, typres, toothpaste from China which have led to a spate of recalls and bans there. Here's a Video of the News.
The most recent is the Cardboard Bun.
(I just heard over the radio that this news is fake too. Some reporters under pressure to get headline news hired actors to act as shady vendors.)
Being conscious about this fact, some consumers, like myself, will ask the vendors where their products come from. Some has complained that they get scolding from the shopkeepers. Sigh... but because Made in China is so cheap, we can't escape Made in China. Here's a report by The New Paper Reporter about how she tried to live her life withouth Made in China for a week and she gave up.
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