The domestic sales of one of its well-known brands have been stopped by a Chinese sweet maker, as they were found to contain melamine.

The exports of the popular White Rabbit candy have already been halted by Guanshengyuan, a well known sweet maker in China.

This is being considered the latest development in a spreading food safety scandal regarding toxic milk.

According to a report, traces of the chemical have also been found in Japan and Hong Kong in products that contained Chinese milk.

There are many other countries that have banned or restricted imports of Chinese products contained milk.

In China, more than 53,000 children got illness and four babies died after drinking tainted milk during the last week.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged five countries to instantly recall all milk powder imported from China.

The WHO said that many companies had been selling the contaminated milk powder without licenses and making it somewhat impossible to find where all of these affected goods could be.

Guanshegyuan works as a subsidiary of Bright Foods that is one of the companies at the focal point of tainted milk scandal.

The company announcement of halting all sales of White Rabbit candy and the decision to recall exports from 50 countries came after some of its products tested positive for melamine in Singapore.