Bad candy in Canadian Coscos

With Halloween fast approaching comes a warning to parents and kids regarding Sherwood brand Pirate's Gold milk chocolate coins imported from China.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to eat, distribute or sell the candy. It is sold across Canada by Costco and may also have been sold in bulk packages or as individual pieces at various dollar and bulk stores.
The chocolate contains melamine which is the same chemical responsible for killing several babies in China, and sickening thousands more.

Snopes.com had an article on this

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/coins.asp

Sherwood Brands reports that none of this candy has been marketed in the United States. So we should be safe. But I feel that parents should have this knowledge to they can better make decisions.

http://www.sherwoodbrands.com/Safety/productsafety1.html

As an additional reminder, please do not feed any chocolate or raisin products to your dogs as it can kill them!!!

 

another recall from china

 

Is there anything out of China that isn't poisonous?????

 

Many many of our imports actually

 

But I love those chocolate coins!

 

Well according to the manufacturer, the ones in the US are safe.

Ya pays your money and you takes your chance.

 

About a month ago, samples of Cadbury chocolate produced in China were found to contain melamine - an industrial chemical that can be used to mask protein deficiency.

Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety tested 104 samples of products made by a variety of manufacturers, including Cadbury, Nestle, and some U.S. and Chinese companies. Only two of the samples showed unsatisfactory levels of melamine -- Cadbury Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate (bulk pack 5kg) and Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut Chocolate (bulk pack 5kg).

The sample of the Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut Chocolate contained melamine levels of 65 ppm (parts per million) which is more than 25 times the acceptable level of 2.5 ppm, according to Hong Kong's government.

According to the center, a child weighing 22 pounds (10kg) would have to eat more than 10 small pieces of the hazelnut chocolate to surpass the tolerable daily intake. An average adult weighing 132 pounds (60kg) would have to eat more than 112 small pieces to surpass the level.

The melamine levels in the samples of Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate were 6.9 ppm -- more than twice as high as the legal limit of melamine.

Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety said it will continue to test dairy products and other products with dairy ingredients. Test results on other products -- including milk powder, soya drinks, yogurt, butter, baby food and frozen confections -- would be released on Monday, it said.

Chinese authorities have implicated 22 Chinese dairy companies in the tainted milk scandal.

Investigators suspect people watered down milk in an attempt to sell more of it, and added melamine in order to fool quality checks, Chinese authorities have said. The toxic chemical is used to bolster apparent protein levels in diluted or poor-quality milk.

On Saturday China announced that a test of 607 batches of liquid milk from 27 cities found the samples to be melamine-free, state-run media said.

The tests were the sixth Chinese officials have carried out since melamine was discovered in powdered infant formula last month.

Chinese authorities have promised to subsidize farmers hit by the shrinking demand for milk, the news agency Xinhua said.

Among them is the northern Hebei province, which has earmarked 316 million yuan ($46.1 million) for subsidies. That translates to giving a farmer 200 yuan ($29) per cow, Xinhua said.

Melamine is used to bolster apparent protein levels in diluted or poor-quality milk.

Chinese authorities have arrested 40 people in connection with the scandal, including two brothers who could face the death penalty if convicted.

Authorities have implicated 22 Chinese dairy companies in the scandal.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/china.milk/index.html

Any level of melamine in food products is unacceptable.

 

Thank heavens my kids dont' trick or treat anymore.