China: Company apologises for contaminated eggs

A Chinese company has issued an apology to consumers in Hong Kong, where food safety regulators found excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in eggs sold by the firm.

Hong Kong television station TVB reported that Han Wei, director of China’s Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group, said the company took responsibility for and “truly regrets” the incident.

Hong Kong testers on Saturday found 4.7 parts per million of melamine in imported eggs produced by a Hanwei division. The legal limit for melamine in foodstuffs in Hong Kong is 2.5ppm.

An official with the government in Dalian, where the company is headquartered, said Hanwei has started recalling some of the eggs deemed “problematic”.