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Hopefully, the BFAD may have an initial negative-positive list by Friday, according to the abscbnnews.com report. The same report states that:

Department of Health (DOH) and BFAD officials had repeatedly clarified that the products on the list are not necessarily melamine-contaminated. They said only milk products from China should be avoided by the public.

Only milk products? […]

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Is the financial web site you keep logging into safe? Is it secure? If you’re feeling smug about the HTTPS symbol in your browser window, or if you feel safe about secure servers, you’ve probably not yet heard about cross-site request forgeries or CSRFs.
In Nasty web bug descends on world’s most popular sites, Dan Goodin […]

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Well, congress rejects the $700-billion bailout or rescue of the US of the financial industry, and this has sent stocks plunging. Economist Jeffrey Miron writes that bankruptcy is the solution, not bailout.
David Callaway, on the other hand, believes that the rejection of the bailout has cost the American people $1 trillion. If it costs that […]

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Don’t look now but according to The New Zealand Herald, “one of the world’s biggest exporters of hugely expensive dairy protein lactoferrin has suspended exports in order to clarify how it was contaminated by melamine.”
Kent Atkinson writes in Melamine scare sees NZ firm suspend exports about Tatua Cooperative Dairy Company Ltd. [Found out about this […]

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We’re now avoiding all dairy products from China because of the melamine contamination (which has reportedly sickened 53,000 babies/infants in China because melamine caused the formation of kidney stones). The question that remains, though, is this: what other products in the market are contaminated with milk from China?
Several SMS text messages have been floating around […]

Tags: DOH, melamine

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