BEIJING — The list of products caught up in China’s tainted-milk scandal grew Friday to include baby cereal in Hong Kong and snack foods in Japan, while Taiwan reported three children and a mother with kidney stones in the island’s first cases possibly linked to the crisis.
The Japanese government also said it had suspended imports of milk and milk products from China, where about 54,000 children have developed kidney stones or other illnesses after drinking baby formula contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine. Four deaths have been blamed on the tainted milk.
The latest problematic foods were Heinz baby cereal and Silang House steamed potato wasabi crackers. The Hong Kong government said in a statement Friday it found traces of melamine in the products, which were both made in mainland China.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Heinz ordered a recall of the baby cereal as a precautionary measure after the government’s announcement, it said in a statement on its website. The Associated Press
