Food safety recall round-up March 21-27
Milk exceeds bacterial count limit
25 March - Hong Kong: Pura Slim Milk Drink imported from Australia has been detected with a total bacterial count exceeding the legal limit, according to the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) in Hong Kong.
Pura Slim Milk Drink comes in a 1 litre carton and has a best before date of 31 March 2014.
The CFS notified the importer, Vitasoy International Holdings, that the product has contravened the Milk Regulation.
The firm has voluntarily stopped the sale of two other milk products, Pura Fresh Australian Milk and Pura Hi-Lo High Calcium Low Fat Milk Drink as a precaution.
CFS has suspended importation of the three products with immediate effect.
"A sample of the milk product was collected for testing at the import surveillance level. The test result showed that the total bacterial count of the sample was 130 million per millilitre," a CFS spokesman said.
"According to the Milk Regulation, milk after heat treatment by means of pasteurisation should not contain more than 30 000 bacteria per millilitre."