Cadbury Chocolates, an all time favorites of mine (how can you not love the creme egg every Easter) has had to recall 11 different chocolate candy items from shelves due to melamine tainting in their Beijing, China factory.
The affected chocolates are:
Cadbury Dark Chocette, Cadbury Eclairs, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut Chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate and Cadbury Hazelnut Praline Chocolate.
The spokesperson for Cadbury says that the affected products would have been distributed to Australia, Taiwan, Nauru, Hong Kong and Christmas Island and nowhere else.
What is melamine? It’s not something you should really be ingesting. A chemical often used to create melamine resin and crop fertilizer, which explains how it gets into milk to taint milk based products like milk chocolate.
Earlier this year 4 infants died and 53,000 people became ill (kidney stones and renal failure) due to milk and infant formula that contained melamine.
White Rabbit Creamy Candy from China was also found to contain melamine just last month.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Did you find the Chinese made Cadbury in the United States? (I have seen White Rabbit still on the shelves, but that’s not that hard to find, I’ve never seen anything but the US-made Cadbury and some UK/Canada Cadbury stuff here.)
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
The original news article doesn’t say where Cadbury chocolate imported into the US is from (probably here, Canada, UK like you said), just that Hershey is the distributor and that the factory is not in China.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jL7mHkJcSHVOLlejms7eQS2xXDiwD93GKDS00
It seems like a good idea to check the package first!
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
Oh, from the title of your post it sounded like you actually had some of this stuff and had to throw it out.