“The [UK] Food Standards Agency has today issued a food alert about novelty food products from China, including chocolate-flavoured ‘willy spread’, containing melamine.
Melamine is an industrial chemical that should not be present in food. Milk products containing melamine have been at the centre of a major food incident in China.
An Agency spokesperson said: ‘This is a first. We’ve never had to put out an alert before on “willy spread” – chocolate-flavoured or otherwise…….”
Read more HERE.
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NOTE: For those innocent North American ladies who read this blog, “willy” is British for a male sex organ. (From the comments, that innocence is more widespread than anticipated).
R J Adams October 26, 2008 at 9:56pm
Flimsy Sanity October 27, 2008 at 10:00 am
The cost of testing everything that comes from China would be huge.
Jo October 27, 2008 at 10:06 am
Is this going to give you interesting search results on people coming to your blog?
wisewebwoman October 27, 2008 at 11:05 am
Melamine is everywhere, RJA. there have been Hallowe’en candy recalls in Canada. But according to reports I read (see my post on plastic bottles) the FDA is just not doing their job.
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