Cadbury Recalls Melamine-Laced Chocolate
September 29, 2008 by Heather R.
Filed under Chocolate News, Chocolate Products
Cadbury is recalling over one million chocolate bars made in their factory in Beijing after they were found to contain melamine. The 11 recalled varieties were sold mostly in Asia and the Pacific, and Hershey, producers of Cadbury in the US, say the chocolate sold in the US is not affected and that they don’t purchase their dairy products from China.
The affected Cadbury chocolate include Cadbury Dark Chocette, Cadbury Eclairs, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut Chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate and Cadbury Hazelnut Praline Chocolate.
Kraft, the makers of Oreo, and Mars, who make M&M’s, are both questioning the findings of an Indonesian test that found traces of melamine in samples of their products made in China. Both companies say they’ll comply with the recall but plan to do their own testing as well. The same products were cleared of melamine in other Asian countries.
Dairy products and baby formula in China were recently found to be contaminated with melamine – the same stuff that caused the deaths of thousands of pets in the US last year – after companies added it to watered down and substandard products to falsely boost their apparent protein levels. So far 54,000 babies have become ill and four have died.
More information here.
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So is that why melamine is added to the chocolate – to boost their apparent protein levels?? Who needs protein in chocolate?
Sky – the melamine was added to the milk and milk powders used in the chocolate.
Sky – The melamine was added to milk products in China, reportedly to boost the apparent protein levels, as you said. Melamine is high in nitrogen and common tests for protein content read levels of nitrogen, so it was an easy way to make that level look good and not have to use as much milk. Oh yeah – it also kills people. I guess they overlooked that.
This is very irresponsible.
So technically it’s not the chocolate, baby formula, etc., that’s the problem, but the milk going into these products.
You can read my bit of info here: http://candydishblog.com/2008/09/29/nca-chocolate-is-safe-from-melamine-contamination-but-white-rabbit-recalled/
what about Cadbury chocolate in Canada? I’d assume that they don’t get their milk products from China, either, but as I just ate part of a Dairy Milk bar at the movies tonight…