China Health Scandal Spreads to Ice Cream, Yogurt

HONG KONG—Hong Kong ordered the recall of a Chinese company's products on Thursday after tests found that eight out of 30 of its products, including milk, ice cream and yogurt, were contaminated with melamine.

Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd is one of several Chinese firms implicated in China's growing milk powder contamination scandal. Milk powder containing melamine has killed four infants in China and made over 6,000 sick.

The Yili Group is a flagship enterprise in China's dairy industry and became the official dairy products sponsor for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

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"We are recalling the Yili products and the importer is also recalling all Yili products from the Yili brand," said Constance Chan, the Controller of Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety, after latest round of test results of 30 samples of milk products.

"That would involve milk, milk beverages, yogurt, ice cream and ice bar," she added.

"Eight out of 30 products of Yili company contain melamine," she said