Singapore, Sept 19 - Singapore advised retailers on Friday to remove a brand of China-made yogurt bars from shelves after a Hong Kong food safety panel found low levels of melamine contamination.
In China, 6,244 children have become ill, with four dead and 158 suffering "acute kidney failure" after consuming milk powder tainted with melamine, a banned chemical used in making plastics.
Singapore's Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) asked importers and retailers not to sell "Yili brand Natural Choice Yogurt Flavoured Ice Bar with Real Fruit" and advised consumers who bought the product not to eat it.
"AVA is conducting tests on other imported milk and dairy products from China for melamine contamination," the food safety watchdog said in a statement.
An AVA spokesman said on Friday there were 19 dairy and milk products made in China that were sold in Singapore.
Yili, a Beijing Olympic Games sponsor, already faced a recall in Hong Kong, where authorities found that eight of its 30 products, including ice-cream and yoghurt ice bars, contained melamine.
Nearly 10 percent of milk samples from three top Chinese dairy companies was tainted with melamine, a Chinese government food quality watchdog has said.