KFC and Starbucks have confirmed usage of products from dairies involved by China's contaminated milk crisis. Both companies issued statements confirming their outlets used products provided by Mengniu, one of China’s largest dairy suppliers, after melamine was found in some of its milk products.
KFC dropped its supplier Nestle for Mengniu products in 2007, and
Mengniu's dairy products are supplied at KFC's 2,000-odd stores in
China. Starbucks said Thursday that it had pulled all its China-made
milk products from Mengniu. It added that neither employees nor
customers had fallen ill due to the milk products. "Though we believe,
based on assurances from the supplier, that the milk we received from
Mengniu is not included in the contaminated lot, due to the serious
nature of this warning, Starbucks has voluntarily pulled all Mengniu
milk offerings until further notice," the company said.
Also, testing is going ahead for ice creams and other products from
Yili group. Results showed that eight out of 30 tested products
contained some traces of melamine. Beijing authorities have also
released made public findings that ordinary milk on sale in
supermarkets from the named suppliers was also contaminated. More than
one-fifth of China's powdered baby milk producers have been found to
add melamine to artificially increase the protein level of their milk.
The worsening crisis has resulted in the deaths of four children in
China, and more than 6,000 children are ill with kidney stones after
drinking contaminated milk.
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