guanshengyuan , a local company that manufactured children ' s candy , has stopped selling its popular brand green duck , which is sold locally in china , after reports revealed the presence of milk . bright foods own the candy themselves . earlier their powdered products was found to contain melamine which coli over 53 , 000 people and was involved for the deaths of at least five infant children . guanshengyuan has quit exporting their ingredients to the nearly 50 firms overseas that buy them . melamine has also been produced in hong kong in baby rice and berry formula made by heinz . it has also been detected in ginger crackers which are manufactured by the chinese ngo , silang house . another china food distributor , marudai food co . has since paused the sale of specific items such as meat buns , cream buns and corn ravioli , with cream over suspicions that melamine spiked powered milk has contaminated their dairy . so far there have been no reports of any illnesses associated with marudai foods .
4 children died in Hong Kong because of melamine contained in milk.