EU food safety experts have found only a limited risk to children in Europe from food imports from China, despite its health scandal over tainted milk.
Even in the worst case scenario adults in Europe would not exceed tolerable intakes of the industrial chemical melamine, said a European Union report released Thursday. Melamine in dairy products has been blamed for sickening 53,000 infants in China and killing four.
Only children who had a "high consumption" of toffee, chocolate or cookies containing high levels of contaminated milk powder would potentially run a risk in Europe, said the report from the European Food Safety Agency based in Parma, …

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