中国国家质检总局28日在北京表示，将继续关注和调查新西兰乳粉双氰胺残留问题。
Beijing (CNS) -- China's top quality watchdog said on Monday that it will be keeping a close eye on milk powder imported from New Zealand, a major dairy supplier to China.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said that it has demanded its counterparts in New Zealand to provide detailed information and a risk evaluation report on its dairy products.
Public concerns were first aroused when the Ministry for Primary Industries in New Zealand announced last Thursday that it had ordered farmers to suspend the use of fertilizers containing dicyandiamide.
Low levels of dicyandiamide, or DCD, were found in dairy products produced in New Zealand, according to media reports.
DCD got into the milk as farmers applied the chemical to pastures to prevent nitrate, a fertilizer byproduct that is also harmful to health, from getting into rivers and lakes.
A total of 500 farms in New Zealand have reportedly used fertilizer containing DCD.
New Zealand authorities have said that the country's milk products pose no health threat.
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