BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities shut down a dairy in Shanghai and arrested three of its executives after tests found some of its milk products were tainted with the same industrial chemical at the center of a milk safety scandal more than a year ago, state media said Friday.
The Shanghai Daily newspaper said authorities found that Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. Ltd. was producing milk powder and condensed milk with unacceptably high levels of melamine, which can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.
It said eight batches of contaminated milk powder and …

29 December 2009 – AQSIQ issued an announcement on December 14, urging the quality inspection agencies at all levels to strengthen supervision, inspection, and anti-counterfeiting law-enforcement to ensure the quality and safety of food and hot-selling products during the New Year’s Day holiday and the Spring Festival.
According to the announcement, the quality inspection agencies should step up supervision and administration on food product manufacturing, and ensure that the food makers take the primary responsibilities. First, food producers with safety problems found out in the past will be laid focus on, …

Of the 4,700 food samples tested by the Centre for Food Safety in November, 99.6% were satisfactory. Eighteen items failed the tests.
 
A Romaine hearts sample and a Chinese white cabbage contained excessive cadmium while a dried fig had sorbic acid exceeding the legal limit.
 
Two dried raisins, two dried apricots, a dried tomato, a dried sweet potato and a skinned green chilli pepper were found to contain excessive sulphur dioxide.
 
Two pure cream samples from the same batch had total bacterial counts exceeding the legal limit. They were collected at import level …

Clarithromycin  ( Biaxin) is a white to off-white crystalline powder. It is soluble in acetone, slightly soluble in methanol, ethanol, and acetonitrile, and practically insoluble in water.
BIAXIN is available as immediate-release tablets, extended-release tablets, and granules for oral suspension
Each yellow oval film-coated immediate-release BIAXIN tablet (clarithromycin tablets, USP) contains 250 mg or 500 mg of clarithromycin and the following inactive ingredients:
250 mg tablets: hypromellose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, D&C Yellow No. 10, FD&C Blue No. 1, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, povidone, pregelatinized starch, propylene glycol, silicon dioxide, sorbic acid, sorbitan …

MonaVie has no control over how the product is stored once it arrives at its destination and because of this they understand that the product may not be kept in optimal conditions.  It is in these less than satisfactory conditions that the growth of potentially harmful bacteria is promoted necessitating the need for preservatives.
 
Citric Acid
MonaVie uses a lemon based form of citric acid but the levels of citric acid in the formula are extremely low. Citric acid is a natural preservative and is also used to add an acidic (sour) …