No powder milk out of 45 registered brands in Bangladesh are imported from China, authorities yesterday said.
But one brand was caught and forced out of market two weeks back on charges of hitting the shops before getting clearance, they said.
Then again, the health directorate published a cautionary notice in a Bangla daily yesterday, asking people to keep from dry milk produced by Chinese companies Guangdong Yashili Group, the one found in pre-clearance marketing, Qingdao Suncare Co Ltd and Sanlu Group.
The media in recent days reported quoting Chinese officials that Bangladesh, Burundi, Gabon, Myanmar and Yemen have imported milk powder produced by Chinese companies whose products were found to have been contaminated.
Three babies died and at least 6,200 children fell sick, over 1,300 of them were hospitalised, in China in recent weeks after drinking milk formula tainted with melamine, said the reports.
"A mobile court found Yashili brand milk powder in Narayanganj market two weeks back," Fatema Parveen, director of the Institute of Public Health and Nutrition (IPHN), yesterday said.
She said the court then ordered the brand's distributor to withdraw the product from market as it was not tested and registered.
The brand has not yet got marketing clearance, she added.
Authorities said they are keeping a close eye on whether there are any other unregistered Chinese brands on the market, adding that they will again sift through the registered ones to guard against any errors.
Media reports quoted China's director of quarantine and inspection that China's largest milk producer Mengniu Dairy Group announced the recall of three batches of formula made in January after tests showed they were melamine-contaminated.
Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.
Different countries, including Chinese territory Hong Kong, have since been recalling Chinese dairy products.
China has come under increasing pressure from trading partners to improve product quality following a series of scares ranging from drug-tainted seafood to dangerous toys to poisonous cough syrup to toothpaste.
Last year the European Union threatened to ban imports from China if the country did not act more aggressively against makers of substandard goods.
Similar calls were made by some politicians in the United States.