Even if the food doesn’t make you sick, the plate it sits on might – if you don’t use it properly.
That was the warning from Hong Kong Consumer Council on Wednesday, after tests on a type of plastic tableware commonly used as a substitute for easily broken ceramic products.
Nine of 39 samples of melamine-ware bowls, plates and chopsticks failed China’s stringent hygiene standards on the leaking of toxic formaldehyde and melamine monomer into food.
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