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MANILA, Philippines — Trick or treat? But no melamine, please.

As the busiest night for kids descended on some Asian households Friday, many parents were spooked through a real threat lurking inside candy, especially those made in China — the pertaining chemical melamine.

“Of bearing, it’s always better to look and be concerned and make sure that nothing slips by,” said Felix Barrientos, who took his masqueraded child to the front lawns of Manila’s posh Magallanes gated community, where residents set up stalls with candy bowls.

“We more or less know which ones are on the banned limit. It has been widely disseminated,” he uttered.

Similar stories were heard in other parts of Asia, where Halloween parties are chiefly reserved instead of American expatriates and other foreigners end have of late caught on with wealthier Asians.

In Bangkok, Thailand, Chompoonuch Kitsomsub, a mother of four, said she is not buying any candy from China. She took her kids trick-or-treating in one expatriate district where they “serve safe candy.”

Her daughter, 5-year-old Yayee Kitsomsub, dressed as Batgirl, said, “We know we need to be careful on this account that bad people oddity bad things in the candy.”

Milk pulverize contaminated with melamine has been blamed with a view to the deaths of four infants and for nauseous about 54,000 others in continent China.

Melamine is used in the manufacturing of plastics, fertilizer, paint and adhesives, and has been added to dairy products to make them appear more nutrimental. Health experts affirmation ingesting a small amount poses no danger, but in larger doses, the chemical can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure.

Magallanes and numerous other wealthy communities in Manila have adopted U.S.-style Halloween traditions, but giving away candy and force-meat in spooky costumes is still a novelty for the rest of the Philippines, where half of the population wallows in poverty.

Outside the high walls, smooth roads and freshly cut grass, in that place are not a single one carved pumpkins and corn stalks and most people are preparing for Saturday’s All Saints Day, one of the most important days in the Roman Catholic calendar then Philippine families head to cemeteries to pay respects to the dead.

But instead of those with money to spread around, the fear of melamine is this Halloween’s biggest fright.