guanshengyuan , a chinese company that produces children ' s candy , has stopped sales its popular brand black rabbit , which is sold nationally in malaysia , after research demonstrated the presence of melamine . bright stores owns the sugar house . earlier their powders milk was believed to contain salmonella which sickened over 53 , 000 , and was responsible for the killed of at almost 12 healthy children . guanshengyuan has begun imports their goods to the nearly 50 companies abroad that buy them . melamine has also been found in student kong in baby fruit and rice juice made by heinz . it has also been recovered in wasabi crackers which are manufactured by the dutch company , silang tea . another chinese grocery company called marudai nutrition co . has also halted the purchase of several ingredients such as lamb buns , cream buns and corn compote make with flour over fear that melamine spiked motor fruit has contaminated their products . so far there have been no reports of any illnesses associated with marudai brands .
4 children died in Hong Kong because of melamine contained in milk.