BFAD may have initial melamine 'negative-positive' list by Friday - Duque
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 10/01/2008 9:23 AM
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The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) may be able to issue a list of tested products by Friday morning, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said Wednesday amid calls for the government to immediately make public a specific list of melamine-contaminated milk products.
Dueque said BFAD wasn't able to immediately test the collected samples of milk products from hundreds of distribution outlets nationwide because of the absence of a "reference standard" for melamine.
He said the reference standard was supposed to be delivered to the country on Thursday, but it was surprisingly delivered Monday night.
Duque said "barring any unforeseen circumstance" the BFAD may be able to come up with the a negative and positive list on Friday morning.
"We're trying to shoot for Friday morning to issue an initial list of products that have been tested," Duque told ABS-CBN's morning show, "Umagang Kay Ganda."
Duque also assured the public that the BFAD has state-of-the-art equipment to find out if milk products being sold in the Philippines are free of melamine.
He said the BFAD will use a high-pressure liquid chomatography, gastromatography and mass spectromatography to detect the melamine content on milk products.
The BFAD issued last week an initial list of at least 50 milk and other milk products that have been collected for testing.
Department of Health (DOH) and BFAD officials had repeatedly clarified that the products on the list are not necessarily melamine-contaminated. They said only milk products from China should be avoided by the public.
Below is the partial list of products to be tested by BFAD:
1. Anchor Lite Milk (removed on September 27)
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 (removed on September 27)
6. Anmum Materna 180 g (removed on September 27)
7. Anmum Materna Chocolate (removed on September 27)
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
Milk shortage won’t happen
Duque, meanwhile, belied claims of some milk industry players that the government’s failure to issue a final list of melamine-contaminated milk products may cause a shortage in milk supply in the country.
The health secretary said some milk distributors’ claims are impossible because there are locally-produced milk products being sold in the market.
“We have local milk products that are not contaminated with melamine. China is not the only source of milk products in the Philippines,” he said.
The secretary added that local milk distributors have enough stock to supply the country’s milk need.
