Swiss food maker Nestle's contaminated baby milk is not allowed
to be taken or sent to China, said sources with the state quality
watchdog on Friday.
China's General Administration of Quality Supervision,
Inspection and Quarantine said that those products, if found inside
the country, will be seized and destroyed.
It also confirmed after its probe that China had not imported
any of these tainted products so far.
Nestle (China) announced Wednesday that none of the recalled
products had been sold on the Chinese market.
Nestle said Tuesday that it had recalled more than 2 million
liters of baby milk found to be contaminated with the chemical
substance isopropylthioxanthone (ITX) from Italy, Spain, France and
Portugal.
Most of the milk is in Italy, where about 30 million liters were
seized after tests showed some of it had been tainted by ITX from
printing ink on the packaging.
(Xinhua News Agency November 26, 2005)