Sweet's maker takes action while awaiting test results
The maker of the country's most famous brand of candy, White Rabbit, halted domestic sales yesterday, five days after Singapore found the industrial chemical melamine in the sweet.
An official of Shanghai's Bright Foods Group, parent of the candy's producer Guan Sheng Yuan, said the sales halt came even though results of government tests had yet to be released.
Guan Sheng Yuan stopped exports on Thursday but had previously ruled out further action pending test results.
'This is a profound lesson. It ought to be a lesson from now on that we must realistically strengthen the idea of supplying customers with healthy, safe and high-quality food,' Bright Foods deputy general manager Ge Junjie told Xinhua.
Bright Foods also produces milk, and some of its other products have been found to contain melamine.