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Taiwan's Pizza Hut withdraws tainted cheese
Posted: 26 September 2008 1706 hrs
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TAIPEI: Taiwan's Pizza Hut said Friday it had pulled
grated cheese from its outlets after they were found to contain
unacceptably high levels of the industrial chemical melamine.
"Our delivery shops island-wide have stopped supplies of the grated
cheese after tests for melamine showed higher than the allowed
levels. We apologise to the public," a company spokeswoman told
reporters.
The company said the grated cheese, which is mixed with creamer,
contained 30 times the permitted level of the chemical, at 76 parts
per million.
It estimated that some 130 kilograms of the product, which comes in
small individual servings for sprinkling on pizzas to add flavour,
had already been distributed by its 143 delivery shops.
Pick Food & Machinery Corporation, which makes the product,
said in a statement the creamer came from a Malaysian company and
the cheese from New Zealand dairy producer Fonterra.
It said further tests had been conducted to determine which
ingredients were contaminated and results are expected to be out
next week.
Fonterra is partner to the Chinese company Sanlu, which is at the
centre of the toxic milk scandal in China.
China has said 53,000 children have been sickened by milk products
laced with melamine and four have died, prompting a host of nations
to ban, or at least scrutinise, Chinese dairy
imports.
