“Parents feel the pinch of tainted milk” was the headline over this opinion article by China Daily editor-at-large Bai Ping over the weekend. It gives an insight into the lengths Chinese parents go to ensure safe foods for their babies and young children. “Although I’ve been coping with the incessant stranglehold of smog on Beijing with considerable calm, recent reports …

China’s Ministry of Health announced on its website that the China Food  Safety Risk Assessment Center has organized setting up detection methods and took samples tests for DCD. write my essays Wu Yongning, chief expert of China Food Safety Risk Assessment Center told a media briefing, dicyandiamide (DCD) can  prevent nitrogen loss and can prevent nitrogen from turning into nitrate to pollute the environment. The substance is among existing registration of fertilizer in China.Currently, there is no official limit on amount from international organizations. The Ministry said the China Food Safety Risk Assessment Center has taken timely measures to detect and test samples after media reports. The Center are consulting international experts,using the results of animal experiments, and the final results are still in process of argumentation. The State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine earlier said it that it would continue to pay attention to and investigate the tainted New Zealand milk powder incident and asked New Zealand for risk assessment report as soon as possible. “We contacted concerned departments in New Zealand multiple times after its Ministry for Primary Industries announced on Jan 24 it had ordered to suspend the use of fertilizers containing dicyandiamide on the country’s pastures,” Fu Wenbiao, deputy director of the General Office of the General Administration of Quality Supervision,Inspection and Quarantine, said at a news conference. “We will continue to pay attention to, and investigate, the issue.” Low levels of dicyandiamide, or DCD, a low toxicity chemical, were found in dairy products produced in New Zealand. But fertilizer companies have since suspended use of DCD .      

Shanghai Daily reports officials have found no dairy products with the potentially harmful chemical residue that was detected in some New Zealand dairy products. Shanghai Food Safety Office director Yan Zuqiang said the city’s food safety watchdog has done on-site inspections at local dairy product manufacturing lines, especially for products for children, and all the products have been tested as safe. The …