Constant natural milk powder has found the residual risk of melamine residue

The New Zealand government has banned the sale and export of melamine-containing dairy products, the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) announced January 24 that the country's milk and powdered milk are found to have a low toxic chemical melamine (DICYANDIAMIDE,DCD) residue. In order to keep the pasture fertile, New Zealand farmers will spray their own cyanide in the pasture to prevent the flow of nitrate from harmful substances into rivers and lakes as a result of artificially applied fertilizers, the MPI said. And the residue of melamine in the Fonterra produced milk powder detected. New Zealand is the world's largest dairy exporter, with dairy products accounting for nearly one-third of New Zealand's exports and annual dairy exports of about 11.5 billion New Zealand dollars (about 9.7 billion U.S. dollars). The toxic chemical is detected or will hit the export of the country's most important dairy products. Fonterra's China headquarters said in a written reply to the media that "while there are no food safety or health risks detected, Fonterra is in favour of taking the severest precautions to support the initiative of two New Zealand fertiliser companies to suspend the sale and use of melamine in the pasture to prevent the possibility of DCD entering New Zealand food. "Not much, the Chinese consumers who have just slowed down from the melamine nightmare, are bound to tighten their nerves again." January 25, China Merchants Circulation Productivity Promotion Center dairy industry analyst Song told reporters: "Melamine is the raw material for the manufacture." The amount of content is harmful to the human body, there is no clear study, there is still need for toxicological research. "The occult three months of September 2012, Fonterra has discovered the residue of song," said the farmer sprays the double cyanide mainly to have two functions: one is to the fertilizer the solidification function, does not make the fertilizer to lose; the second is the nitrate in the fertilizer, the amine of nitrate, neutralization, reduce the harmful effect of this kind of chemical substance. "New Zealand is a pasture country where dairy cattle are mainly made of natural grazing and their pastures are impoverished by the effects of the weather, so farmers are accustomed to spraying them on the pasture to ensure that the pasture absorbs fertilizer," he said. Melamine is a white crystalline powder that can be dissolved in water. Melamine can be used as a raw material for production, in the pharmaceutical industry may also be for the preparation of guanidine nitrate and sulfa drugs, but also for fixing agents, adhesives and so on. Since 2004, New Zealand has allowed the use of double cyanide spraying pastures. Researchers from MPI have concluded that there is no food safety problem with melamine residue in dairy products. The New Zealand government Ministry of Primary Industry said that MPI and Ravensdown had separate food safety assessments. The two assessments come to the same conclusion: the spraying of melamine in the pasture does not pose a food safety risk. According to the New Zealand Herald, Fonterra, the New Zealand dairy giant, found 100 samples in September 2012, with 10 of total milk, skimmed milk and some cheese powder in the presence of "extremely small amounts" of melamine residue. A spokesman for Fonterra said that due to lack of food safety concerns, the batch of residual melamine was routinely sent to foreign markets. The MPI said that no melamine residue was found in the November 2012 products.Stay, currently all completed tests have not found any protein products, butter, cheese or dehydrated milk fat containing double cyanide. No 48 random raw milk ingredients were detected in 2010. MPI believes that the melamine is basically non-toxic water-soluble compounds, through biodegradation does not leave the difficult to eliminate residues. With caution, the MPI recently announced the ban on melamine-containing milk products. But the department did not say which companies and brands of milk and milk powder were found in the latest melamine. The two major fertiliser suppliers in New Zealand, Ravensdown and Ballance Agri-nutrients, have suspended the sale of melamine until the government detects a source of residual melamine after the dairy residue incident. Tode Moulles, managing director of Fonterra's public affairs, said: "At present there is no uniform standard for the residual amount of melamine in food, and it is a responsibility of New Zealand to stop using it in the light of New Zealand's high priority in international trade." "Fonterra Fonterra has been involved in the melamine incident because of the investment Sanlu, this time the Red Line New Zealand is China's largest dairy imports major source. Song said that the current domestic imports of raw milk powder 80% is from New Zealand, and more than 70% of the milk from New Zealand is provided by Fonterra. 2012, China imported raw milk powder will exceed 600,000 tons. If calculated by 80% from New Zealand, the import volume will reach 480,000 tonnes. In addition, the domestic import from New Zealand formula milk powder quantity more than 60,000 tons. After the 2008 Sanlu incident, the domestic melamine pale, at that time Fonterra was involved in the investment Sanlu Group. This time, as a large number of domestic milk powder companies, the raw material provider, the detection of melamine is the preparation of raw materials, Fonterra can not be blamed. There are concerns about the safety of formula milk. Song said it was not yet known how much the potential impact of the cyanide could be, and if consumer concerns were detonated, it would have a huge impact on New Zealand's dairy exports and would leave domestic consumers no longer fully convinced that New Zealand's milk powder is 100% safe. Abbott, Mei-Chen, Wyeth and other milk powder enterprises are Fonterra's partners, and even directly in New Zealand to produce cans, and then imported to China for sale. The reporter contact Fonterra China, the other side did not disclose why only in the natural dairy products found in the double cyanide, also did not reveal the presence of double cyanide residue in January this year. To counter the potential risks of cyanide residues and the possible trade crisis, MPI has set up a working group to assess the food residue caused by the use of melamine by farmers. Members of the Working Group include Fonterra Group, New Zealand Dairy Association, Ravensdown Corporation and the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries staff. Fonterra China said: "The working Group will discuss the possible impact of the suspension of the use of melamine on the environmental protection of livestock." ”