Have you drank Lipton Green Milk Tea lately? Anything strange or have you felt something extraordinary?
The thing is, Unilever has just pulled out its stocks from Taiwanese and Indonesian groceries and supermarkets after findings revealed the company used tainted Chinese milk. Reports say, Lipton Green Milk tea used high concentration of China milk tainted with Melamine, a deadly plastic resin made from cyanamide and the fertilizer urea.
Unilever should take responsibility and inform the Philippine consumers how many boxes from Taiwan and Indonesia have been distributed in Philippine groceries and supermarkets. The retail giant should be responsible enough and take or pull out their stocks from the market. The possibility of contamination is allegedly very high.
It appears that it’s not only milk and dairy products that pose a great health risk. Products such as Lipton Green Milk tea, choco bars and products which mix milk from China should be pulled out of the shelves by the Department of Health and the Bureau of Food and Drugs to protect the public.
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I sure hope that Chowking doesn’t use Chinese milk. I am a Nai Cha addict!
This is precisely the reason why i commented in this previous thread that we should separate this issue from smuggling. A product being sold by a reputable MNC should not give us a false sense of security.
This is the ‘previous thread’ i referred to above.
Sorry, cannot seem to post links anymore. Just refer back to Ishmael Ahab’s blog post on this matter.
Yikes. I guess it’s better to brew your own tea and just pour milk to taste then, yeah?
BTW… I’ve tried milk in freshly-brewed green tea… it doesn’t taste as good as it does with black tea. I get the feeling Lipton isn’t being quite honest with what else they put in that drink of theirs. Just sayin’. ;)
Hehe, I think most iced teas have a secret ingredient: MSG! (it’s true.) Btw, we Filipinos should not be too complacent. Our habit of drying palay on the nearest national highway probably means a significant intake of asbestos from brake linings.
And I guess we really don’t mind hyperventilating over the neurotoxic dangers of endosulphan, wringing our hands and making like beheaded chickens, but are willing to live with a ton of it upended in one of our archipelagic bays for half a year or more…
oh my god…I am drinking iced Lipton Milk Tea original while I am reading this post…
*throws the iced milk tea away*
Makes one wonder the efficiency of the FDA in approving products safe for public consumption. Its a pity, because this is not the first time this has happened. All at our expense…The worse part is that as consumers we dont know what products are safe for consumption anymore.
The prudent thing to do is just eat or drink natural foods and do away with processed foods and drinks….The FDA seems to be a barker, more than an efficient quality control unit.
Question it is 2010 now and another Melamine scare is on the news and I notice all grocery stores in Phils no longer carry stock of any Lipton Milk tea products… Is this because of the melamine poisoning again same as in 2008??? If so I recommend a boycott of all Unilever products in the Phils due to unnecessary wanton neglect and endangerment of human life and well being.