Following reports that pet food had been recalled due to melamine contamination, the latest report has consumers panicking as they try to determine which ones are safe for their family. Considering that a large amount of products now come from China and have been patronized due to their low price, alarms have now been raised with news circulating that melamine has also tainted milk formula from China which has made thousands of children ill.

Food experts believe that it may have been part of China’s food chain for a long time now. To date, 53,000 infants have gotten sick after drinking formula milk deliberately contaminated with melamine. Four babies have died, 13,000 have been hospitalized, and 104 are currently in a critical condition with kidney stones caused by the adulterant.

Apparently, baby formula milk requires high protein content and producers are able to cheat on this regulation by mixing it with melamine powder. However, the list of contaminated food is not limited to just baby formula. Even meat products can be contaminated if the food fed to these animals were likewise tainted with melamine. It can also be absorbed by plants if the pesticide used contains cyromazine, a derivative of melamine, which is commonly used in China as a pesticide.

Though effects are not verified yet, experts say that melamine cause kidney stones and other kidney problems. It is still uncertain what the long term effects are. While kidney stones can be removed easily, melamine may cause other damage when it crystallizes and blocks the small tubes in the kidney that filter blood.

Following are the products that are suspected for possible melamine contamination:

1. Bairong Grape Cream Crackers
2. Dove Hazelnut Almond & Raisin Chocolate
3. Dove Hazelnut Chocolate
4. Dove Milk Chocolate
5. Dreyers Rocky Road Ice Cream
6. Dreyers Strawberry Ice Cream
7. Dreyers Toast Almond Ice Cream
8. Dreyers Chocolate Cake Ice Cream
9. Dreyers Cookies & Cream Ice Cream
10. Dreyers Mint Chip Ice Cream
11. Dreyers Vanilla Ice Cream
12. Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Banana
13. Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Plain
14. Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Chocolate
15. Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Strawberry
16. Dutch Lady Sterilized Milk Lf Honeydew
17. First Choice Calcium Sesame Crackers
18. First Choice Calcium Saltine Crackers
19. First Choice Calcium Onion Crackers
20. First Choice Calcium Seaweed Crackers
21. Ginbis Party Animal Butter Biscuits
22. Ginbis Party Animal Seaweed Biscuits
23. Ginbis Party Animal Cnut
24. Ginbis Animal Biscuit
25. Koala Cocoa Biscuit
26. Kraft Oreo Wafer Sticks 18s
27. Kraft Oreo Wafer Sticks 5s
28. Kraft Oreo Wafer Stick White Chocolate 18s
29. Kraft Oreo Wafer Stick White Chocoolate 5s
30. Lotte Koala Cocoa Funpack
31. M&M Chocolate Plain
32. M&M Chocolate Peanut
33. M&M Funsize Milk
34. M&M Funsize Peanut
35. Meiji Ujikintoki
36. Meiji Umakabo Chocolate
37. Meiji Family Pack-Green Tea
38. Meiji Chestnut & Redbean
39. Mentos Bottle Yoghurt Promo Pk
40. Mentos Bottle Yoghurt
41. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Malt 6s
42. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut 6s
43. Monmilk Chocolate Milk 6s
44. Monmilk Coffee Milk 6s
45. Monmilk Pure Milk 6s
46. Monmilk Hi Cal Milk 6s
47. Monmilk Hi Cal Low Fat Milk 6s
48. Monmilk Milk Deluxe 12s
49. Nabisco In A Biskit Chicken
50. Nestle Nes D/Stick Mini Vanilla
51. Nestle Nes Distick Mini Choco
52. Nestle Milk & Berry Stars Cereal
53. No Frills Wafer Blueberry
54. No Frills Wafer Chocolate
55. No Frills Wafer Peanut
56. Orion Fresh Pie
57. Orion Tiramisu
58. Pei Tian Cream Biscuit
59. Rabbit Milk Sweet
60. Silang Natural Oat Cracker
61. Snickers Candies Funsize
62. Snickers Peanut Chocolate
63. Snickers Snacksize Bars Peanut
64. Take One Baby Bites 24s
65. Take One Baby Bite Ck Vg
66. Take One Baby Bite Carrot
67. Vitasoy Q Soya Milk
68. Vitasoy Chocolate Milk
69. Vitasoy Melon Soya Milk
70. Wall’s All Natural Mango
71. Wall’s Mini Cornetto Ice Cream
72. Wall’s Mini Poppers Ice Cream
73. Wall’s Magnum Ice Cream
74. Wall’s Moo Sandwich Ice Cream
75. Want Want Milk Candy
76. Want Want Flavoured Milk
77. White Rabbit chewy candy
78. Yili Pure Milk 1L
79. Yili Hi Cal Milk 1L
80. Yili Hi Cal Milk 6s
81. Yili Hi Cal Lo Fat Milk 1L
82. Youcan Unusual Multipack
83. Youcan Strawberry Multipack
84. Youcan Traditional Sesame Multipack
85. Youcan Passion Multipack
86. Youcan Masterbean Multipack
87. Youcan Silk Sliced And Passion Strawberry
88. Pei Tian Cream Biscuit

* Jolly Cow Milk and Cadbury Chocolates from China were not formally included in the list, but were voluntarily taken off the shelves by manufacturers and retailers to avert any possible health risk to consumers.

Note that the above list is not verified considering that health officials refuse to give a formal list of products. However, the source of the list even includes product codes which I only omitted. Pass this article on to your friends and family here and abroad. Even with reports still unverified, we should stay on the side of caution and protect our family, especially the children, from the health risks that these unscrupulous manufacturers are distributing around the world.