Cadbury Recalls Chinese-Made Chocolate

Candy Sold In Taiwan, Hong Kong And Australia Found To Contain Chemical Melamine In Tests

(AP)  British candy maker Cadbury said Monday it is recalling 11 types of Chinese-made chocolates after tests found they contained the industrial chemical melamine.

A Cadbury spokesman said it was too early to say how much of the chemical was in the chocolates.

"These are preliminary findings from tests. And it's too early to say where the source was or the extent of it," the spokesman told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

He declined to be named because of company policy.

Cadbury said in a statement it has recalled 11 chocolate products made at its factory in Beijing which are distributed in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia.

The company said, however, that all its dairy suppliers have been cleared by government milk testing.

China's recent food safety scandal started with the discovery of melamine, which is used to make plastics, in baby milk powder.

Four infants have died and some 54,000 have developed kidney stones or other illnesses after drinking the contaminated baby formula.

Authorities say suppliers might have added melamine, which is rich in nitrogen, to watered-down milk to deceive quality tests for protein.

[carlylaine]

Forget it...I know what I am trying to write but I guess I''m too upset ...so lucky you...I ain''t blogging anymore tonight, unless it''s simple...

[carlylaine]

sorry...I was trying to multitask...I meant we IMPORT the most from China and EXPORT...

[oneworldusa]

America, I''ve been saying and practicing this for years. Do NOT buy anything Made in China. Period. If you must have something, find a brand Made in USA or at least guam, indonesia, etc. that have NOT been known to poison us yet. Some will argue Made in USA could contain Chinese components. Yes, perhaps, but at least SOME of you money will go to support US jobs, not entirely to China which insists on poisoning us.

[oneworldusa]

Posted by telltale57 at 09:04 PM : Sep 29, 2008

-I don''t think anyone blames the Chinese people, per se, it''s the US companies farming out jobs and manufacturing to make a buck while in the meantime they are practicing absolutely no quality control. And the Chinese governments and businessmen(women) who, also for the sake of a buck or yen, or whatever don''t give a rat''s behind about the quality of goods they provide. Its not the people as a whole, its the greedy business and governments allowing this to happen.

[kaelinda]

Actually, I''m not at all displeased by all these reports of melamine contamination coming out of China. I''m sorry for all the illnesses and deaths, of course, but the more disasters produced by foreign manufacturers, the more domestic manufacturers are likely to bring the jobs back home. American workers may not be the hardest working in the world, but they''re certainly the most productive for the dollars spent on their wages!

[stn_sage]

I was reading another article today that said Mars M & M''s are potentially contaminated with melamine! They, ALSO, are being made in China!

Yikes! I wonder if there''s any major candies producers left in the U.S. that are doing widespread shipping both domestically and internationally?

This is sad! Things have gotten so bad you can''t even go out and buy some chocolate, candy bars, or M & M''s without taking your life into your hands!

When I was a kid, they had candy SHOPS with rows and rows of different candies, and most of it was made right here in the good old U.S.A.!

Boy, those days are gone---that''s too bad, too!

[wkuinkc]

Who would have guessed that a totalitarian communist dictatorship that runs their own kids over with tanks on international television would do such a thing?

What is amazing to me is that anyone is surprised that these stories keep coming up. This is the natural endgame of unregulated capitalism. We are relearning old lessons on a global scale.

[cbsblogger]

It''''s not laissez faire in China, at least not in the normal sense of the word. It''''s systematic corruption from the top down. On the one hand criminals in the system of connections and bribery of various sorts are not only not punished, but are actually protected by the law. (Exception proves the rule in this case.) But in fact it is worse. In many spheres - such as in the tofu-house school buildings - opting out of the system of bribery is simply not an option. You will lose your job. It goes to the top and the chain flows to the very top.


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Posted by telltale57 at 08:37 PM : Sep 29, 2008

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That sounds like the USA, not China.

[cbsblogger]

Hershey Chocolate is made in Mexico. The traitorous CEO scum of America have sold out our country. I refuse to buy these products anymore.

[Michael Arnold]

Geeze, I went to buy some Brach''s Candy Corn and its now stamped made in MEXICO. It doesn''t even hold together. God, isn''t anything sacred?

[telltale57]

I wouldn''t blame it on the Chinese people. They are great. They have the misfortune to be ruled by an unopposed mafia.

[carlylaine]

AHHHHHH the GLOBAL ECONOMY...ain''t it ''F''ing grand?

[telltale57]

It''s not laissez faire in China, at least not in the normal sense of the word. It''s systematic corruption from the top down. On the one hand criminals in the system of connections and bribery of various sorts are not only not punished, but are actually protected by the law. (Exception proves the rule in this case.) But in fact it is worse. In many spheres - such as in the tofu-house school buildings - opting out of the system of bribery is simply not an option. You will lose your job. It goes to the top and the chain flows to the very top.

[abmekeel]

i think at this juncture,everyone should pull out their products and make them in their "own backyard" so to speak. there has been too many problems with china''s products.

[alphaa10-2009]

Is it too soon to hope "innovative American business" starts manufacturing in our own country, again?

As it is, I already have met my minimum daily requirement for melamine this week, thank you.

The relatively "lessez faire" (hands-off) business climate of the PRC means little concern and protection for American consumers. If you can imagine, that means even less concern than provided by our own (Bush lessez faire) Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Thank you, American business, for scuttling over to the PRC to prop up the world''s wealthiest dictatorship-- and hold American health and safety hostage, as a decided bonus.

[notopennshut]

Read the labels! Any kind of foodstuff from China should be avoided. In fact, until China is serious about making safety an issue, we should boycott ALL products from China. When it hurts the wallet, they will begin to take note. Sure, home-made goods would be more expensive, but the chances of getting sick or dying is a lot less. Promote your own country''s products, you are also helping the economy. When China realizes that we would not stand for this kind of behavior, they may finally crack down on the fly-by-night operations. Sure we would like to help other nations, but not at such great cost to our own. Boycott Chinese goods now!!

[hawksprings]

Some country or company is missing a golden opportunity to knock China off the top of the heap of cheap products.

[telltale57]

food grown in a garden in a city would possibly or probably have more toxic chemicals than that grown on farms. You have no idea where the dirt came from. Chemicals falling from the air onto the ground. Old industrial sites, spills, etc. Better have the soil tested at least.

[gonesouthern]

It is about time that one of there bad products has come back to them instead of to us and the rest of the world. Now maybe they will take a more proactive roll with helping international police arrest and prosecute the Chinese Companies producing these knockoff chemicals.

[livewire190]

If China keeps this up thier economy will be the next to fall to the beast.