Update: Milk Scare

I was in the reading room at at school yesterday, perusing a few English newspapers, when one of the headlines caught my eye - KLIM milk powders have been taken off the shelves. Now folks, if you read and remembered Jean's Milk Powder Selection Methodology entry from a couple of months ago, you'll know that I drink KLIM milk powder because the can is a pretty color, there were a few English words on it that suggested it was nutritious, but mainly because I liked their play on words. KLIM is made by Nestle, and turns out that while their products initially tested negative for melamine and declared safe about a month ago, the government is now conducting new tests that can detect even trace amounts of melamine. Some of KLIM's milk powders are made in China, and the new tests show that there are trace amounts of melamine, although they assure us that it is not enough to be harmful. In the article, the company's CEO was shown drinking a glass of KLIM milk to demonstrate that it is still safe, but they have agreed to pull their products off the shelves anyways. I think I'll toss the rest of my can of milk powder too.

My teacher was telling us how they've also discovered melamine in Oreo cookies. She is a mother, and expressed the horror as she remembers buying Oreos for her children, although she herself has not liked them because, as she claims, they are a little dry (I was tempted to tell her that to eat Oreo cookies properly, you need to first dip them in a glass of milk, but stopped short of this advice given that milk has become the new four-letter word).

I've become ever more careful about the food that I buy, especially when it comes to milk. I've cut down on desserts and ice cream that contain milk, and even my beloved pearl milk teas. This really sucks.