by wildcherry on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Health, News

Before it’s milk powder now it’s eggs!! I wonder what’s not contaminated from China.

HONG KONG, China (CNN) — Health authorities in Hong Kong have found more eggs contaminated with the chemical melamine.
he chemical is at the center of a tainted milk scandal that has sickened more than 50,000 children across China. It’s showing up in fresh eggs, according to Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety.

Contaminated eggs were found in a batch produced by Jingshan Pengchang Agriculture Product Company, located in Hubei province, about 430 miles (695 km) east of Shanghai, the center said in a statement Tuesday

Although much lower in melamine content than contaminated eggs produced by Hanwei Eggs that were discovered last week in Hong Kong, the Jingshan eggs were still above the legal limit. Tainted eggs from Hanwei had nearly double the maximum permissible level.

Health officials in Zhejiang City also found melamine in Ciyunxiang-brand eggs produced by Changzhi City Green Biological Development Center, from Shanxi Province.

ealth officials in Hong Kong say that there’s little risk to human health — and that a child would have to eat perhaps 20 eggs a day for the melamine to have an effect.

But Wal-Mart decided not to take any chances. It pulled Hanwei eggs from the shelves of its supermarkets across China.

The egg scare is unlikely to take on the same dimensions as the tainted milk powder scandal, which sickened 54,000 Chinese children and led to the deaths of four babies. Again, melamine was the culprit — and the consequences could be long-lasting.

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