Update :
(please refer to http://www.moh.gov.my/ or http://www.fsq.moh.gov/ for the full,current list)
Bubble tea syrup brands,health,energy and beauty drinks found to contain DEHP
- Top 1 -Watermelon syrup (importer F&B Sdn Bhd)
- Top 1 -Crystal Sugar Aloe Syrup (importer : F&B Sdn Bhd)
- Top 1 -Yam Syrup (importer : F&B Sdn Bhd)
- Good Day -Mango Jam (importer : F&B Sdn Bhd)
- Oriyen Nutri Grow (Boy) Orange Premix -sold by direct selling Cosway (M) Sdn Bhd
- Lennox Firm-Up Collagen Drink-Leton Products (Pty) Ltd (suspected cos it contains grape syrup from CZC)
- Strawberry syrup -from CZC Bubble Tea Supplier
- Strawberry syrup- T&M Resources Corporation,imported by Elegant Solutions Trading
- Grape flavour concentrate - from CZC Bubble Tea Supplier
My suspicions in the previous taiwan related post have been confirmed.
For the past ten years,we have been consuming bubble tea which made its first inroads into the pasar malams and hawker centres before establishing themselves in the shopping complexes..
Worst of all they have been marketing bubble tea as a cool beverage targetted at teens in particular.
Now the ministry tells us that it is contaminated with DEHP.
The offending brand used in bubble tea is :Strawberry Syrup
Manufacturer: T&M Resources Corporation
Importer : Elegant Solution Trading
Doesn't make a difference who sells or makes them to us cos first of all labels can be reprinted and facts changed.
On top of that,how are we to demand from the bubble tea franchisee that we insist on knowing who their source is,and what is stopping them from bluffing us right?
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Bubble Tea Syrup Is Unsafe (The Star) 18.06.2011
PETALING JAYA: A Taiwanese product commonly used in bubble tea drinks sold in the Klang Valley has been confirmed by the Health Ministry to be contaminated with the carcinogen diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP).
In a statement, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the product had been identified as the “Strawberry Syrup” manufactured by T & M Resources Corporation and imported by Elegant Solution Trading.
Two other products suspected to be contaminated by DEHP were
Chuang's Square Cookies the brown sugar, all-wheat, almond and sesame variants
Natural Beauty Drink Powder
Natural Beauty Fruit and Vegetable Powder.
“The ministry has instructed the companies concerned to recall their products immediately while samples have been taken for analysis. All retailers have also been advised to halt sales of the food products with imme-diate effect.
“Customers who have bought the items are advised not to consume them,” Liow said.
The manufacturers for the products were
Chuang's King Tai Chang Food Co Ltd
Prince Pharmaceutical Co Ltd while the importers are
Syarikat Nguan Seng (1990) Sdn Bhd and
Billion Synergy Sdn Bhd.
Liow also said that another 15 food products from Taiwan had been tested and found to be free of contamination, including New Choice Pudding, Lychee Syrup, Honey Peach Syrup and Black Tea imported by Elegant Solution Trading.
Other products free from contamination include Power Bifidus Yogurt Drink, Kinohimitsu Japan D'tox Juice and eight Cosway Oriyen products.
Other food products found not contaminated include Singlong Ho Egg Noodle, Sun Chi Song Hua Ban Noodles, White Jade Noodle and MIC's Taiwan Lemon Wafer.
