Candy, milk and buns are now included in a massive testing of Chinese food products that could contain the industrial chemical melamine. At least four Chinese babies died as a result of tainted milk, which put 13,000 others in the hospital. The Food and Drug Administration is testing products imported from China for the dangerous chemical. According to Reuters:
"The FDA has expanded its Asian market sampling and import surveillance assignments to include additional products such as dairy-based candies, dairy-based desserts and other such products reported to the agency as having been tested in other countries and found positive for melamine or its analogs," FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek said by e-mail.
"We are testing and we continue to test the products. So far, the FDA has not found any positive samples in the products it has tested."
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