2 Oct, 2008 – Belgium has become the latest country to find China-made sweets contaminated with high levels of melamine.
AFSCA, the Belgian Food Safety Agency, confirmed it had detected levels of the industrial chemical amounting to 11.24 parts per million (ppm) - more than four times above the legal limit of 2.5ppm - in a sample of White Rabbit candy.
The body has urged anybody who had bought the sweets not to eat them.
The announcement came after the body had carried out tests on 35 samples of the product manufactured by Shanghai company Guanshengyuan Food. Sale of the sweets had already been banned prior to the test results.
Tainted samples of the candy have also been found in the US, Germany, France and New Zealand. UK supermarket giant Tesco last week pulled the product from its shelves over fears of melamine contamination.