LOCAL supermarket chain I-Tec has become the first company here to be charged with selling China-made dairy products which should have been pulled off the shelves.

It is accused of selling the made-in-China Dutch Lady brand of strawberry-flavoured milk, which was found to contain the industrial chemical melamine, at two of its outlets in Balestier Road and Serangoon Road.

On Sept 19, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) had ordered all shops to remove the Dutch Lady strawberry milk after a sample was found to contain melamine.

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