FDA burn tonnes of products tained with melamine

Deputy Public Health Minister Wicharn Meenchainan witnessed the incineration of tens of  thousands of food product items contaminated with higher than acceptable levels of melamine at the Bang Pa-in industrial estate north of Bangkok .

Some 20,000 boxes of snacks including cheese crackers and biscuits and more than 13,000 cans of unsweetened condensed milk containing high levels of melamine were destroyed.

The burning of the melamine-tainted products was to ensure Thailand's consumers that food products in the market are melamine free.

Wicharn urged other food producers and importers to strictly control the quality of their products and continue cooperating with the FDA to prevent contaminated food from reaching consumers.

Melamine, an industrial chemical used in the manufacture of plastics, has been used in some milk products and is blamed for the deaths of four infants in China and having left more than 53,000 others sick.