February 27th, 2009

Melamime In China Milk, The Return ?

I received a strange mail today from the management of the school my kids are attending in Shanghai:

Subject: Soya milk as substitute for milk and yogurt

Dear Parents,

It has always been our concern to look into our students’ health. We try our best to give them healthy and nutritious food/snacks to sustain all the nutrients that their growing body needs. In this regard we have decided to provide soya milk and fruits everyday instead of milk and yogurt. The reason is because of the continuous milk scare that goes around, being on the safe side, we will serve soya milk which is equally nutritious and healthy for the children.

I am very grateful to the school team for being such cautious but I can’t prevent myself from raising a couple of questions:

1. The word melamine is carefully not mentioned
2. Either these guys don’t read the news – everything’s possible in China… – and just discovered 6 months later the Sanlu affair, then just realized that feeding kinds with melamine was far from clever
3. Or they are very well informed and there is another scandal underway we are not aware of.

But the real question is then: What do I put in my morning flakes? Beer? Anyone has ever tried?

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