A Chinese sweet maker has stopped domestic sales of one of its best-known brands after it was found to contain the industrial chemical melamine.
The company, Guanshengyuan, has already halted exports of the popular White Rabbit candy, made from milk.
It is the latest development in a spreading food safety scandal involving milk contaminated with melamine.
Traces of the chemical have also been found in Hong Kong and Japan in products containing Chinese milk.
They are among a growing number of countries which have already banned or restricted imports of Chinese products containing milk.
Four babies have died and more than 53,000 children have so far been made ill by drinking contaminated powder milk in China.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has meanwhile urged five countries to immediately recall all milk powder imported from China.
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