PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA - The milk scare has prompted some people to source for milk they deem safe using popular social networking website Facebook.

For Malaysian Ooi Sui Ping, who is now living in Hong Kong, the recall of milk products there compelled her to broadcast to her friends and family that she needed milk powder from Malaysia for her 14-month-old baby.

She had put on her profile page on Facebook saying that she had enough milk powder to last 18 weeks but that if anyone had spare baggage space and was flying to Hong Kong they could load up on a certain milk formula for her.

Ooi, 28, said she trusted that particular milk powder which she had brought over from Malaysia earlier as it was produced in Thailand.

'I have also stopped consuming certain things here because I am not sure if it is safe as a fair amount of it is manufactured with reconstituted milk powder,' she said, adding that she had gone through everything in her refrigerator when news of the scandal first broke.

Ooi said a relative of hers had also told her to stop feeding her baby anything that came from China. -- The Star