Greater crisis beyond pulling China milk and China milk products off the shelf

From a journalist’s point of view, I reckon that an act of responsible journalism opened “a can of worms” with the revelation of contaminated milk from China. As always “bad news” makes “good news” During the past few weeks, the media has continuously bombarded world citizens with the emerging reality, that they may have unknowingly consumed insufferable amounts of melamine, allegedly found in milk products from China.

With over 50,000 babies taken ill and various countries banning the import of China milk, the ensuing China milk saga is now a global crisis. No doubt about that. Traces of melamine were evidently found in samples of milk made in China. It is common knowledge too, that melamine poses various risks to human health, which you and I could seemingly avoid by refraining from consuming milk and milk products from China.

On the contrary, avoiding “made in China” milk products is not good enough, as a deeper crisis lies in establishing what we should consume and not consume from the range of products made from China milk distributed all over the world. Why is this? More alarming is the fact that many countries import China milk as a raw material for their candy and confectionery industries, leaving the consumer with the dilemma of establishing the list of countries that make their candy, chocolate and other milk products using China milk imports.

“British supermarket, Tesco, removed Chinese-made White Rabbit Creamy Candies off its shelves as a precaution” while the number of countries banning China imports continues to rise. However, that will not entirely eliminate the consumers' predicament of being vulnerable to melamine.

Pulling China made products off the shelves and banning milk imports is not the end.