Britain's supermarket giant Tesco today announced that it has withdrawn a brand of Chinese sweets from its shelves after the Melamine-tainted baby formula killed four infants and sickened over 53,000 others in China.
Tesco said it had no evidence that the White Rabbit products were tainted but they were being removed as a precaution.
The sweets are sold in a small number of British stores as part of the supermarket's ethnic range.
Meanwhile, China today promised strong action to deal with the widening scandal as US and European consumer safety officials urged it to enforce product safety standards.
More countries boosted testing of Chinese food imports as fears grew that compromised ingredients may have contaminated other Chinese-made products.
Baby milk powder adulterated with the industrial chemical melamine has sickened over 53,000 Chinese babies and killed four.
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Melamine, used to make plastics and fertilizer, has been found in infant formula and other milk products of 22 Chinese dairy companies. Suppliers trying to cut costs are believed to have added it to watered-down milk because its high nitrogen content masks the resulting protein deficiency.
The chemical causes kidney stones and can lead to its failure.