Four batches of Lipton milk tea powder will be recalled after melamine was found in an internal quality check by Unilever Hong Kong.

The products are:

* Lipton Milk Tea Powder Original 17g x 20 sachets, best before date 17112009;

* Lipton Milk Tea Powder Gold 18.5g x 10 sachets, best before date 17112009;

* Lipton Milk Tea Powder Gold 18.5g x 20 sachets, best before date 18112009; and,

* Lipton Milk Tea Powder Gold 18.5g x 20 sachets, best before date 19112009.

The Centre for Food Safety urged people not to drink the products. The centre has asked the trade to stop selling them and will collect samples for testing.

The company has set up a consumer hotline, 2892 3110, for enquiries.

Melamine-tainted products

Meanwhile, the centre's melamine test results today found 116 of the 119 dairy product samples checked satisfactory. Three had melamine levels exceeding the 2.5ppm limit. They include a walnut cake with 3.7ppm melamine, a coconut cake with 19ppm and Glico Pocky Men's coffee cream coated biscuit sticks (net weight 52g, expiry date 5.6.2009) with 43ppm. Click here for details.

The importers will recall the products and retailers have been asked to stop selling them. People should not consume the products.

On yesterday's reports of three brands of chocolate products detected by overseas authorities to contain melamine and Cadbury Asia Pacific's recall of some products in Hong Kong, the centre's tests found all samples satisfactory.

As a Cadbury Chocolate Eclairs sample (net 180g) was detected with a melamine level of 1.9ppm, the centre has asked the company to explain its recall of 11 Mainland-produced products from the local market and to give all its test results. It has also taken more samples from the importer for testing.