Melamine in Food

Our company specialise in supplying ingredients to 3 in 1 coffee, non dairy creamer and cereal.  A customer called to demand a guarantee that our ingredients, mainly instant coffee powder and non dairy creamer, were not sourced from China. She also wanted to know what is the allowable limit for melamine in food set by AVA Singapore. The answer is the allowable melamine limit set by AVA is 5ppm, or 5 part per million.

Our creamer supplier from Holland  has in the past weeks issued declaration that they do not source any ingredients from China. Not satisfied with the declaration, our customer demanded us to send non dairy creamer samples to a reputable laboratory for testing. We did as the customer demand and the result was negative ( i.e. melamine was not detected at the level of 0.05ppm. We even went one step further to test the customer’s 3 in 1 coffee, and again melamine was not detected.

As for instant coffee powder, it is made with just pure coffee beans, and high protein in not a what buyers are looking, Therefore, it can safely be consumed with the knowledge that it is free from melamine.

The dust has more or less settled down on the melamine issue. Let’s hope that history will not repeat itself. Touch wood.