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Food Alert: for Action
Ref: 49/2008
Certain varieties of Koala brand biscuits have been tested in the Netherlands and found to be contaminated with melamine. The affected biscuits were manufactured in China by Lotte China Foods Co. and distributed to a number of premises in the UK via the Dutch company Liroy.
The levels of melamine detected were at 4.02mg/kg and 4.98 mg/kg respectively.
On 26 September, the European Commission adopted a decision (2008/757/EC) stating that any products from China containing more than 15% milk as an ingredient, or products where the percentage of milk content cannot be established, are currently subject to documentary, identity and physical checks, including laboratory analysis, to determine that any levels of melamine present in the product do not exceed 2.5 mg/kg. Those products with more than 2.5mg/kg will be destroyed.
The Agency’s risk assessment, based on the EFSA statement, is that these specific products are unlikely to be a risk to health.
The products that have been withdrawn are:
All batch codes have been withdrawn.
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