Bangkok - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration on Monday burned 8 tons of food products tainted with high levels of the toxic chemical melamine. About 20,000 boxes of melamine-tainted snacks and more 13,000 cans of unsweetened condensed milk were destroyed at the Bang Pa-in industrial estate in northern Bangkok under the supervision of Deputy Public Health Minister Wicharn Meenchainan, the Thai News Agency said.
Thai health officials have been confiscating dairy products, mostly imported from China or Malaysia for the past two months, found to contain unsafe levels of melamine - an industrial chemical used in the manufacture of plastics that has been used in some milk products with lethal consequences in China.
