Chinese chocolate?

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kayrharris · #1 Post by **kayrharris** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:55 am

I think it was toothpaste the last time we were checking where things were made. Now Cadbury is not very happy:

A Cadbury spokesman says preliminary results show its Chinese-made chocolates contain the industrial chemical melamine.

The spokesman said Monday it was too early to say how much melamine the chocolates contained.

He declined to give his name because of company policy.

Cadbury said earlier the tests "cast doubt" on the safety of its Chinese-made products but didn't elaborate.

gsabc · #2 Post by **gsabc** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:05 am

The FDA or whoever needs to issue a blanket regulation that any product with a protein specification for release must also be analyzed for melamine. Even without a regulation, the companies should start doing this immediately.

I don't know where Cadbury sells their chocolate made in China. I suspect it stays in China, or at least Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #3 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:11 am

What kind of world do we live in when you can't even trust chocolate!

ShitSandwich · #4 Post by **ShitSandwich** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:18 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:What kind of world do we live in when you can't even trust chocolate!

You can trust mine to be all natural!

minimetoo26 · #5 Post by **minimetoo26** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:19 am

I'm glad I pay through the nose for the dairy to deliver my chocolate milk. Some Nesquik is Chinese....

ghostjmf · #6 Post by **ghostjmf** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:21 am

What makes me the sickest (at heart; I haven't eaten any Cadbury's lately) is that all these poisoned children in China (& toothpaste users & chocolate eaters in the reast of the world, & murdered pets in the rest of the world too) are the victim of evil-doers taking advantage of scientific testing.

In the old days, like 20 years ago, if a batch of milk seemed "off" to a food manufacturer, they'd reject it. We're not talking bacterial tests, which they could do at the time, but "it tastes like you've watered it down", that kind of test. Nowadays they chemically test for protein content. So murderers put melamine in there to boost up the test results for protein content. When they 1st started doing this, they probably didn't even know melamine was deadly, though they could have checked. They certainly knew even at that early-in-this-story time that it wasn't food. By now, they have to know, unless they live in caves (& they don't; the new wealthy class in China does not live in caves), but they're still doing it.

gsabc · #7 Post by **gsabc** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:32 am

As I thought. None around these parts.

From USA Today:"Cadbury said it has recalled 11 chocolate products made at its factory in the Chinese capital Beijing, which are distributed in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia."