Kyoto Municipal Government health officials said Sept. 29 that the toxic substance melamine has been found in Marudai Food Co. products sold to two nursing homes.

Marudai Food Co.'s Kurimu Panda pastries containing toxic melamine have turned up at nursing homes in Kyoto. KYODO PHOTO

The amount of the substance found is not harmful, the officials said, adding the city has so far received no reports of health problems.

The product, a pastry shaped like a panda face and made with milk from major Chinese dairy Yili, is one of the products that Marudai announced it was voluntarily recalling.

On Sept. 26, Marudai, based in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, announced that melamine had been found in four of the six food products it sold.