Nestlé and Taiwan Department of Health reaffirm products are safe - Nestlé fails to understand temporary delisting request

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* The quality and safety of its products is a non-negotiable
priority for Nestlé
* Nestlé immediately complied with Taiwan Department of Health
temporary delisting request
* Nestlé urges Taiwan Department of Health to introduce
science-based standards
* Nestlé reaffirms all its dairy products made in China are safe

Vevey, 2 October 2008 - Taiwan's Department of Health has asked
Nestlé to temporarily delist Neslac and KLIM products made in China
and sold in Taiwan. No other Nestlé products are concerned. In line
with Nestlé's Corporate Business Principles, the company immediately
complied with authorities' request, even though the Department of
Health itself confirmed that these products are absolutely safe by
any recognized international standards. Moreover, these products had
already received official certification as being safe from the
Department of Health.

According to international experts the levels of melamine detected in
these products by Taiwan's Department of Health are so minute that
they are almost certainly present in any food product anywhere in the
world. Such minute traces exist in the natural food cycle. Indeed,
the EU and the US have long had limits for the presence of melamine
in food and the WHO recently issued recommendations which were used
by other countries including New Zealand to set their own standards.
The 0.05 ppm detection limit currently applied in Taiwan is up to 50
times below recognized and accepted international standards.

The safety of its consumers is Nestlé's top priority. In order to be
able to make the vital distinction between products made from milk
adulterated with melamine and those containing traces of melamine
occurring naturally in the general environment, standards setting
limits for the presence of melamine in food are essential. Nestlé
therefore welcomes the fact that Taiwan is currently considering such
legislation, but fails to understand why the authorities are asking
Nestlé to temporarily delist these products which, by their own
admission, are absolutely safe by any recognized international
standards.

Nestlé will reintroduce these products as soon as regulatory
standards for melamine in food are set in Taiwan.

Contacts Media Robin
Tickle Tel.: +41 (0)21 924
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Investors Roddy
Child-Villiers Tel.: +41 (0)21 924 36
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