Medical Society president Dr Mathias Sapuri, when voicing the warning, said this included sweets that contained dairy products because the risk of these being contaminated as reported by Chinese officials was high.
Sapuri said while PNG did not have the facilities to test these food products to ensure they were safe, it was wise to avoid consuming them.
“Ninety percent of milk coming from China is safe, but it’s the 10 per cent that we are worried about which is still very high,” he said.
“In PNG it is important that we know the dairy products that are coming from China could be contaminated so we must not buy these products until we are certain the issue has been resolved.
“This is because this issue has been going on since December last year but the Chinese authorities had not come out and said anything until now,” he said.
Sapuri said in Australia there were tests being done on all dairy products as well as sweets coming from China to ensure they were not contaminated with melamine which is a substance found in plastics and fertilizers.
According to reports worldwide, four babies have died, 1,300 are admitted in the hospitals, 62,00 have developed kidney diseases and 150 of them have developed kidney failures as a result of being given milk that was added with melamine.
Newspapers in China have reported that China’s largest producer of milk, Mengniu Dairy Group, announced the recall of three batches of formula made in January after tests showed they were contaminated.
Sapuri, said common baby milk brands such as Sunshine and Lactogen were being imported from Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia which were reasonably safe, but sweets could be a real problem in PNG.
