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THE HAGUE - Two brands of Chinese biscuits and candies have been withdrawn from shop shelves in the Netherlands after they were found to be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, Dutch authorities said Friday.
The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA) has extended a ban announced earlier in the week on chestnut and chocolate flavoured biscuits of the Chinese Koala brand, to all other types produced by the same company.
Candies of the White Rabbit brand were also removed from the market, said a VWA statement.
Random tests found melamine levels above the allowed 2.5 milligrams per kilo in some samples, it added.
"To give the consumer as much certainty as possible, we decided to withdraw the two brands until further notice."
The products were sold only in Chinese stores in the Netherlands, said the VWA, and the risk of illness was small.
"Consumption in normal daily quantities poses no risk to health."
A spokesman could not say how much of the products were in circulation.
Used in making plastics, melamine has been blamed for making 53,000 infants ill and killing four in mainland China after it tainted baby milk powder in one of the country's worst ever product safety scandals.
The European Union recently banned all imports on Chinese milk-related products for children such as biscuits and chocolate on top of a long-standing embargo on Chinese dairy products like milk and yoghurt.
- AFP /ls
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