BEIJING — A Chinese company apologized to consumers in Hong Kong on Tuesday after the territory’s food safety regulators found excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in eggs sold by the firm.
Hong Kong television station TVB reported Tuesday that the company’s director Han Wei said the firm bore responsibility for the contamination.
“There are no consumers asking about protein levels in our eggs and so there is no need for us to add melamine to our eggs in the process of selling our products,” Han said in the report. “We truly regret this. We too have an undeniable responsibility.”
Han did not offer an explanation as to how the chemical got into the eggs, but a Hong Kong food and health official said Saturday that the melamine may have come from feed given to the chickens that laid the eggs.
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