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Cookies Shipped to Wisconsin May Contain Melamine
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 11/14/2008
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture is advising consumers to avoid eating Wonderfarm brand 'Successful' biscuits or cookies, because they may be contaminated with melamine. Anyone who has
purchased this product should discard it.
The product is known to have been shipped to at least two Asian specialty markets in Wisconsin and was likely also shipped to other locations in Wisconsin, particularly to Asian specialty markets and to
supermarkets or grocery stores with ethnic food sections. Although it may have been removed from store shelves by now, consumers could have purchased it previously and have it in their homes.
The package is labeled 'biscuits,' but contains what Americans would generally consider to be cookies.
The department issued the warning to consumers after notification from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that samples of the product found in Minnesota and sampled in a laboratory there proved to
be contaminated. The Minnesota tests showed that several of the biscuits contained melamine levels above the U.S. Food and Drug Administration limit of 2.5 parts per million. Although exposure to
melamine can cause kidney and urinary tract problems, no illnesses have been associated with consumption of this product.
Melamine is a synthetic industrial chemical that has been associated with a number of food recalls linked to products made in China and Southeast Asia.
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