JTB halts sales of all Chinese-made food after melamine found in tart

Friday 03rd October, 06:21 AM JST

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rjd_jr at 08:00 AM JST - 3rd October

And it goes on and on and on, like a broken record. Truly sickening and unprecedented in its scope.
Osakadaz at 11:19 AM JST - 3rd October

I am definitely not sticking my tongue in any more Japanese tarts.You just don't know what has been put inside them.
serindipity at 06:46 PM JST - 3rd October

Oh, Daz! So, it's you that's been running around the supermarkets poking his tongue into Japanese tarts!

usually used for adhesives, paints and dishware

OK, I give up! How does it get into food? Is this a serious attempt at terrorism at a level previously unknown? It has to have been added deliberately, does it not? This would make one consider there is a major Chinese plot to poison the Japanese people. Or am I just being paranoid?
ca1ic0cat at 08:41 PM JST - 3rd October

how it gets in milk: there is a test to determine the protein content of a sample of milk that is based on nitrogen. Melamine can fool this test. It also turns out that melamine is less expensive than milk. So the Chinese milk producers were adding water to the milk. This would be detected by the protein test, so they then added melamine to game the test.

Right now anything coming from China that contains milk as an ingredient would be suspect.

Fortunately all of the Japanese tarts I've met contain no milk from China!
Osakadaz at 09:23 PM JST - 3rd October

Kirin milk tea joins the list in Australia...I would be wary of the canned drinks.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24442887-29277,00.html
romulus3 at 10:23 PM JST - 3rd October

wo wo wo! I need my daily melamine intake. I got hooked. OK, I am sure that most Japanese labeled produce has melamine so I will be ok. The nice Udon from contaminated fields in Shanghai but labeled Shikoku should do just nice.