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SCMP Reporter

The mainland milk crisis deepened yesterday as Taipei authorities ordered an immediate recall of packs of Mr Brown instant coffee and milk tea containing contaminated milk powder imported from the mainland.
Hong Kong  consumers were also thrown into a panic after unofficial tests  showed more milk products were tainted, prompting leading retail  chains  to hastily take  products off the shelves.
And authorities in Singapore said they had found a popular  Chinese-made sweet - White Rabbit Creamy Candy - to be tainted with melamine.
The World Health Organisation also blamed Beijing for having failed to alert the international community earlier, as state leaders battled to contain the scandal.
In Taiwan, the Department of Health ordered King Car Food to recall eight of its products, including instant coffee and soup that were made in Taiwan with dairy ingredients imported from the mainland.
The products, including Mr Brown 3-in-1 Mandheling Coffee, and Mr Brown 3-in-1 Blue Mountain Coffee, which are widely available in Hong Kong, were found to contain melamine. Supplies in Hong Kong are yet to be recalled.
But King Car said the products sold in cans  were free of the chemical.
Latest tests by  Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety also found the one-litre Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk, for catering use, to contain melamine, at a level of 1.4ppm.
The centre asked traders to recall the product, although it said 'normal consumption' would pose no major health effects.
The order came amid mounting confusion among Hong Kong consumers over which brands should be considered safe.
Leading retailing chains, including supermarkets Wellcome and ParknShop, Mannings and Watsons, hastily took several types of Nestle milk powder off the shelves after tests commissioned by Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily found one of them contained melamine.
As of last night, the Hong Kong government had no comment on the newspaper's test results.
Nestle's Hong Kong office could not be reached for comment.
Medical sector legislator-designate Leung Ka-lau  urged the government to step up its tests. 'People are so confused now. The government should test more samples and more quickly,' Dr Leung said.
Information on Hong Kong's test results can be found on the Centre for Food Safety website www.cfs.gov.hk. For related inquiries people can call the centre on 2381 6096.



Milk contamination spreads to candy, coffee