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Two Taiwanese drinks will be banned for sale in Hong Kong

According to the latest news, more than 99 percent blood samples of Hongkongese have been found plasticizer and two Taiwanese drinks which were tainted with excessive amounts of a plasticizer, were banned for sale in Hong Kong.

These two drinks are Speed sports drink and Speed lemon flavour sports drink, manufactured by a same company in Taiwan. It is reported that they exceed the allowed figure 1 ~17 times. So from 12pm, May 31, these two Taiwanese drinks will be banned for sale in Hong Kong and removed by the retailers.

Plasticizer which belongs to environmental hormones and is mainly used in plastic material，can do harm to male reproductive capacity and promote precocious puberty.

Hong Kong Center for Food Safety said that tests being carried out on further Taiwanese products, with results will be announced later.

http://en.chinagb.org/article.asp?aid=1431