Got milk?

These are things you shouldn’t even have to think about, but now, you have to, because some idiot put melamine in milk.

Before you go away think­ing it’s okay because you’re a snob and you don’t drink milk prod­ucts from China and Dutch Lady is not really your kinda brand of straw­berry milk, here’s some dairy food for thought:

This evening an always well-meaning friend of ours sent us an sms telling us about the AVA’s recall of many foods with milk con­tent — and we’re talk­ing about non-China brands of confectionery.

We scram­bled online onto the AVA’s site and found it still just lists Yili Brand Yogurt Flavoured Ice Con­fec­tion, Dutch Lady and White Rab­bit Creamy Candy as the prod­ucts recalled from Sin­ga­pore shelves, while they have “sus­pended the import and sale of all milk and milk prod­ucts from China”.

Maybe they’re just tak­ing things off the shelves qui­etly and test­ing them for melamine, and once con­firmed, they’ll announce total recall of every blardy thing.

I bought a bunch of Cor­net­tos and Mag­nums a few days ago with­out check­ing where they were made. We’ve eaten the Cor­net­tos already, and the remain­ing Magnum’s wrap­per says its “Coun­try of Ori­gin” is Ger­many, which still doesn’t mean it’s com­pletely safe, because if the Dutch Lady gets her milk from China, who is to say where the Kraut Frau gets hers?

My fancy vanilla ice-cream from Drey­ers is made by Nestlé in Hong Kong, which is in China, which means in all like­li­hood, will con­tain milk from one of the major China milk suppliers.

I’d strongly rec­om­mend every­one dou­ble check­ing their food labels — and when in doubt, don’t eat it.