Oct 27 2008
Don’t Eat That
A recall has been issued for foil-wrapped Pirate’s Gold chocolate coins because they contain melmine.
I checked the Snopes website and this is true!
With Halloween fast approaching comes a warning to parents and kids regarding 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 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. Melamine combines with cyanuric acid to form melamine cyanurate, which has been implicated in the Chinese protein export contaminations.
4 Responses to “Don’t Eat That”
I just saw on tonight’s news that there’s quite a big recall of not just candies but toys as well. A while back it was lead in the toys and now it’s Melamine! What’s next.
I think that it was melamine in last years pet food recalls too.
Perhaps we should all boycott products made in China (I know big task since everything’s made in China these days!) and maybe they’ll shape up and watch what’s getting into the products and food they are manufacturing.
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I’m usually not that paranoid about Halloween candy, but all this Melamine hoopla is going to have me checking my kid’s candy for the cheap off brand kinds.
just this weekend, it was announced here in singapore that something that i have been eating at work for everyday in the past 3 years contains melamine … sometimes, i would even have about 4 packs a day! and it’s not even a product of china … that’s the saddest thing … it’s as if, now, we don’t really know what’s truly safe to eat
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My son had a fun trick or treating. He collected two baskets of sweets. I check every single one. I saw some chocolate coins with Chinese markings and threw them away. I also threw away some candies I wasn’t sure of. Better to be safe than sorry.
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