China may set limit to melamine in feed
The Chinese Agriculture Ministry sources said the authorities might revise production standards for animal feed following the tainted eggs episode, China Daily reported Wednesday.
Current rules set no limit for melamine content in
animal feed, the newspaper said. The industrial chemical was recently also found in eggs exported to Hong Kong. Dalian city
authorities in northeast China said the tainted eggs were produced by a local
company on Sept 6 and vowed ‘severe punishment” of those responsible.
animal feed, the newspaper said. The industrial chemical was recently also found in eggs exported to Hong Kong. Dalian city
authorities in northeast China said the tainted eggs were produced by a local
company on Sept 6 and vowed ‘severe punishment” of those responsible.
An
investigation was underway, said the official Xinhua News Agency but the company
was not named. The Hong Kong government said on Saturday that eggs produced by a
unit of China’s Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group based in the northeastern Dalian
port city contained excessive melamine and it may be related to chicken feed.
The content of melamine discovered was 4.7 parts per million (ppm) of melamine
in the eggs, above the Hong Kong limit of 2.5 ppm.
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