50th

This post is one day late but I won’t let September end without saying this:

Happy 50th my Nixlove!

Fifty happy months with my one truelove

What on earth am I going to drink?

Because of the China milk scare (toxic melamine), I have no idea now what milk is still safe for consumption. hehe. I’m a milk drinker and an ultimate chocolate lover so you know, the issue really bothers me.hehe

Anyway, the Bureau of Food and Drugs has just updated its list of milk products to be subjected for testing to ensure the dairy products do not contain toxic melamine, which has been blamed for kidney problems of thousands of infants in China.

It was not immediately clear however whether those included in the list are already banned and have been ordered to be pulled out from the market.

Anyway, for info:

Included in the list are Anchor Wam Frootmilk Drink Mango Magic; Anchor Wam Frootmilk Orange Chill; Anchor Wam Frootmilk Strawberry Spin; Dutch Lady Pure Milk; Farmland Skim Milk; Greenfood Yili Pure Milk; Jinwei Drink; Jollycow Pure fresh Milk; Jollycow Slender Lowfat Milk; KLIM Instant Full Cream Milk Powder (1.8 Kg); M&M Chocolate brown 40gm.

Meiji Hokkaido Azuki (red bean ice cream); Meiji Ujikintoki (red bean and green tea frozen confection); Mengniu Original Drink Milk; Mengniu Pure Milk; Milk Chocolate Bars/China; Milk Chocolate Candies/China; Milkboy repacked; Milkboy repacked; Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage; Monmilk High Calcium Low Fat Milk; Monmilk High Calcium Milk; Monmilk Milk Deluxe Pure Milk; Monmilk Pure Milk; Monmilk Suan Suan Ru Sour Milk Beverage (Mango Flavor)

Natural Choice Milk Ice bar; Nespray; Nestle Carnation Calcium Plus Non Fat Milk Powder (1.6 Kg); Nestle Chocolate flavor Ice Cream Cone; Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk; Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice Cream Cone; Nutri Express Milk; Nutri-Express 15 Nutritional elements (blue, red and orange label and cap); Nutri-Express Milk; Nutri-Express Milk Green Apple; Prime Roast cereals 28gm; Pura Fresh Milk; Snickers brown 59gm; Strawberry Sorbet; Trappist Dairy Low Fat yogurt drink; Vita Fresh Milk; Wahaha Orange; Wahaha Yellow; Want Want Milk Drink; Yili High Calcium 250 ml; Yili High Calcium Milk 1L; Yili High Calicium Low fat Milk Beverage; Yili Lowfat Milk 1L; Yili Milk; Yili Puremilk 250 ml; Yili Puremilk 1L; Yinlu Milk Peanut.

Milk products from other countries to be tested, too

Stricter rules for importers in the works

By Thea Alberto
INQUIRER.net, Associated Press
First Posted 15:18:00 09/29/2008

MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) The Department of Health (DoH) is set to include milk products imported from countries other than in their list of products ‘for testing’ to ensure these do not contain the toxic chemical melamine, which has been blamed for kidney problems of thousands infants in China, officials said.

Aside from this, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said exporters will soon be required to disclose fully the ingredients of their products.

Duque and Bureau of Food and Drugs director Leticia Gutierrez, who attended a budget hearing at the House of Representatives, specifically mentioned Mr. Brown coffee from Taiwan, Heinz food products from America, and Lotte food products from Japan, saying these could contain ingredients from China.

FULL STORY HERE: INQUIRER.net

Our funny hairstyle :)

Just wanted to post this cute pic of ours. We almost have the same hairstyle now, haha!

MMDA’s Fernando: ‘No speed limit on EDSA’

By Thea Alberto, Christian V. Esguerra
INQUIRER.net, Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 13:38:00 09/26/2008

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MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando went on record Friday to declare that there is no speed limit on busy Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA).

During the House subcommittee deliberations on the MMDA’s proposed P1.79-billion budget, Parañaque Representative Roilo Golez questioned Fernando’s use of “motorcycle security,” which the lawmaker called illegal since this is a privilege reserved for the president, vice president, Senate president, House speaker, Chief Justice and chief of the Philippine National Police.

But Fernando justified his motorcycle outriders, saying he was “implementing traffic rules” when he took them with him.

FULL STORY HERE: INQUIRER.net

DepEd wastes millions in bungled projects–House group

Unused books, defective computers cited

By Thea Alberto
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 15:44:00 09/24/2008

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education has wasted millions of pesos in government funds by mishandling several projects, according to the Congressional Planning and Budget Department of the House of Representatives.

In a document dated September 2008 and released to media Wednesday, among the projects mentioned were the:

• Purchase of P667.95 worth of multimedia equipment that were found to be defective, not appropriate for the schools where these were distributed, and were thus were not maximized for classroom instruction in 13 regions.

FULL STORY HERE: INQUIRER.net

RP listed as among most corrupt countries–watchdog

By Thea Alberto
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 18:10:00 09/23/2008

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has been listed as being among the most corrupt countries in the world, according to the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International.

In its latest Corruption Perceptions Index, with zero being the most corrupt and 10 as being the cleanest, the Philippines had a score of 2.3, and was ranked 141st out of 180 countries surveyed.

FULL STORY HERE: INQUIRER.net