Dried Plum Products With Elevated Lead Levels

October 11th, 2009

The Health Ministry here in Malaysia has identified the 15 companies which manufacture or distribute plum products with high lead levels.

Here is the list that has been brought out by the ministry:

Manufacturer/Distributor on Product Package – Product Name on Label

1) Alamo Packing – The Original  Chinese Candy Dried Plums with pickle and Lemon Saladitos Con Pepino Y Limon

2) Almax International- Its Fruit Chinese Style Dried Prune Saladito

3) Bolner’s Fiesta Products – Saladitos 6 Count

4) Casa De Dulce – Salted Plum Suckers

5) Cheung Fat – Plum wrapped ‘candy’ ( Packaging predominantly in Asian foreign language- blue and white bag with candy wrapped in red and white)

6) Dollar Value Distributor – Saladitos Salted Prunes

7) Hinojosa Brothers ( H.B. Wholesale) – Salados Salted Dried Plums

Kam Tai Hong – Hua Ho Ying Tzu ( Packaging in Asian Foreign language)

9) Little Gregory – Chinese Candy ( Packaging also contains individual packets of Limon and La Sabrozita)

10) Mexican Products and Spices – 7 Salted Plums 7 Saladitos

11) Produce Plus – Saladitos Chinese Candy

12) Roxy Trading Co. – PReserved Liquiriced Prune, Preserved Plums, Preserved Salted Prunes, Preserved Plums, Preserved Plums: Preserved Red Prunes.

13) Sanh Yuan Enterprise – Preserved Fruit Pitted Prunes

14) Tang Hoi Moon – Chan Pui Mui Preserved Plum

15) Wan Tom Food Co. LTD. – Ka Po Preserved Plum

Source : FDA Website