Hong Kong authorities said they found excessive amounts of the industrial chemical melamine in a fourth batch of eggs from mainland China, over a month after they last found elevated melamine levels in eggs from the mainland.
In a statement issued late Tuesday, food safety authorities said egg samples from northeastern China’s Jilin province were found to contain 4.7 parts per million of melamine, nearly double Hong Kong’s legal limit of 2.5 parts per million.
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