Saudi Arabia Finds Melamine in Nestle Milk Powder Batch

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia's Food and Drug Authority (SAFDA) has found a batch of a milk powder made by a Nestlé plant in China to be highly contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, the authority said today.

A spokesman for Swiss-based Nestlé was not immediately available for comment.

SAFDA identified the product as the 400-gramme Nesvita pro-Bones and said the indicated batch was produced on May 6, 2008 by a Nestlé plant in China. The authority said it also found melamine concentrations that are harmful to children in three other batches of the same brand, but of different weights.

The agency also found melamine in a chocolate wafer cream it identified as 'Apollo' made by Malaysia-based Apollo Food Industries.