Sunday, September 28, 2008

Melamine tainted milk and Corporate responsibilities (Updated)

After reading yet another corporate statement on the "safety" of their products, I feel compelled to voice out my concerns on these communication gymnastics that these corporations are resorting to.
A) On Sept 24th, Mars Food which imports Snickers, M&M and other dairy based confection from China issued an advertisement that states " We are confident none of our chocolate or confectionery products made in China includes any dairy ingredient adulterated with melamine"
What has confidence got to do with safety of the products? Moreover - those made in China at this time? Get them tested and show the test results (the latest results). Test the products sold in Malaysia. It's not like the problem just happened overnight. It has been on going for quite a while. I am banning Snickers, M&M, Dove and any other Mars Food products from my house with immediate effect!
Updated info for 30th Sept:
Indonesia's food supervisory agency said at the weekend that it discovered some 16 Chinese-made diary products contained melamine, adding that all those products - including well-known brands such as Snickers and M&M's chocolates - would be immediately destroyed. "Mars is extremely surprised about the recent announcement that tests conducted by the... Indonesian regulatory authority, have shown that M&Ms and Snickers products made in China contain melamine," the company said in a statement released late Monday in Hong Kong. "The results announced (in Indonesia)... conflict with and are completely inconsistent with all analytical results received to date by Mars from governmental agencies and independent laboratories across Asia and Europe."

B) Today 29th Sept, the local Pizza Hut (in response to another news article of positive presence of melamine in cheese in Pizza Hut Taiwan) says " we did a thorough review of our supply base last year which demonstrates that none of our supply was impacted. All our suppliers have confirmed that this is still the case". Huh??
Hello - this is already September 2008. What you did last year may have an effect (if any) only for the few months thereafter. How sure are you that you are not affected by the melamine adulteration since then? I am not!! And you asked your suppliers for their scout's honor?? That's like asking people to swear on the Quran that they are innocent. Of course they will swear their innocence - or risk losing money in product recalls!!
Pizza Hut is also off my household list of prodcuts to purchase.

1 comment:

vertigo said...

wohhh! we have been ordering a lot of Pizza hut stuff here in office for the team from time to time!

wake up call...!!!