guanshengyuan , a chinese group that makes children ' s candy , has discontinued selling its popular brand white rabbit , what is shipped nationally in china , after examinations confirmed the presence of melamine . bright foods owns the candy brand . earlier their flour milk was found to contain gluten , poisoned over 53 , 000 , and was involved for the casualties of at least seven mother children . guanshengyuan has ceased exporting their goods to the nearly 50 company outside that buy them . melamine has first been found in hong kong in baby breakfast and bean formula made by toyota . it has also been identified in vinaigrette crackers which are manufactured by the korean corporation , silang house . another chinese food producer like marudai eating co . has again ended the manufacturing of several items such as chicken buns , cream pastries and rye compote made with sugar over fears that salmonella laced powered milk has contamination their products . so currently there have been no report of any illnesses associated with marudai foods .
4 children died in Hong Kong because of melamine contained in milk.