The list of companies facing potential recalls  has grown  as reports of foods tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, which has been blamed in the deaths of four Chinese infants, spread to a widening range of products.
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Meanwhile-Nestle Sees Positive Impact From China Milk Scandal

Nestle SA, the world's largest food company, expects the recent China milk scandal to positively impact its business as its products have been cleared by Chinese authorities, the Swiss group's chairman said.


'All our products are 100% safe...Sales in China are rather being favoured,' Peter Brabeck-Letmathe told reporters in India's capital, when asked whether the scandal would affect the company's business.

'It's rather positive than negative,' Brabeck said.

Thousands of Chinese children have been hospitalised, sick from milk formula tainted with melamine, a cheap industrial chemical that can be used to cheat quality checks. Nestle has said its milk products in China and Hong Kong are safe.

Brabeck said he would not comment on media reports that Nestle was talking to Hershey Co about buying all or part of the U.S. chocolate maker.

London's Daily Telegraph reported on Sept. 21 that the Vevey-based maker of Nescafe coffee, KitKat chocolate bars and Maggi soup was in talks with Hershey.

Nestle, which considers India as one of its fastest-growing markets, will double its investment in the country to 6 billion rupees (£70m) in 2009, Brabeck said, but he and other officials declined to say what it would be used for.

Cadbury has recalled 11 chocolate products in Hong Kong as a precautionary step, the Hong Kong governent's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) said in a statement. The products were manufactured in Cadbury Asia Pacific's Beijing plant and distributed in Hong Kong, the statement added. Also Unilever said it was recalling four batches of its Lipton-brand milk tea powder in Hong Kong and Macau after they were found to contain melamine. Food and sweet giants Heinz and Mars have been drawn into China's tainted milk crisis. Heinz said it would stop using Chinese milk in its food processing operations in mainland China and Hong Kong after a batch of baby food was found to be contaminated with melamine. Mars meanwhile challenged findings by the Indonesian government that suggested Chinese-made chocolates including Snickers bars and M&Ms were also tainted with melamine.