Fwd: Dried fruit from China on Level 5 alert !

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Be alert ! Just avoid imported foods they themselves won't eat!  No wonder 1 in every 5 Malaysians has cancer!??  (TO BE SUBSTANCIATED)  Dried fruit from 16 companies on Level 5 alert    KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has put dried fruit products, particularly plum and prune products, from 16 companies in China , Taiwan and other Asian countries, on Level 5 alert because of their high levels of lead. Ministry staff will be on the lookout for these products at entry points for 16 manufacturers and distributors to ensure the products do not come into the country, Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said on Thursday. With a Level 5 alert, the Ministry would hold the products to test them for lead content before they can be released into the market.  The highest alert, Level 6, involves an immediate rejection of the product. Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the monitoring was started following an Oct 1 US Food and Drug Administration report warning people not to consume dried fruit, including dried plums and prunes, due to lead contamination. “If a product by a manufacturer or distributor is found to contain more than the permitted two parts per million (ppm), legal action will be taken under the Food Regulations 1985,” Liow told reporters after launching the ministry’s management conference on Thursday. If convicted, guilty parties can be fined up to RM100,000, jailed for up to 10 years or both. Lead, in cumulative amounts over time, causes nervous system disorders and distorts brain development, especially in children. Dried Plum Products with Elevated Lead Levels   Manufacturer/Distributor on product package Product Name on Label Alamo Packing The Original Chinese Candy Dried Plums with Pickle and Lemon Saladitos Con Pepino Y Limon Almax International ItsFruit Chinese Style Dried Prune Saladito Bolner’s Fiesta Products Saladitos 6 Count Casa De Dulce Salted Plum Suckers Cheung Fat Plum wrapped “candy” (Packaging predominately in Asian foreign language – blue and white bag with candy wrapped in red and white) Dollar Value Distributor Saladitos Salted Prunes Hinojosa Brothers(H.B. Wholesale) Salados Salted dried plums Kam Tai Hong Hua Ho Ying Tzu   (Packaging in Asian foreign language) Little Gregory Chinese Candy Packaging also contains individual packets of Limon and La Sabrozita Mexican Products & Spices 7 Salted Plums 7 Saladitos Produce Plus Saladitos Chinese Candy Roxy Trading Co. Preserved Liquoriced Prune Preserved Plums: Preserved Salted Prunes Preserved Plums Preserved Plums: Preserved Red Prunes Sanh Yuan Enterprise Preserved Fruit Pitted Prunes Tang Hoi Moon Chan Pui Mui Preserved Plum Wan Tom Food Co. LTD Ka Po Preserved Plum

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