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1. Tilt down from shoppers to shelves where chocolate products have been removed
2. Pan right across empty shelf
3. Various close-ups of labels, including M&Ms and Snickers
4. Pan to close-up of label: (English) “We’re sorry, this product has sold out”
5. Two women shopping with trolleys
STORYLINE
British chocolate maker Cadbury on Monday ordered a precautionary recall of 11 chocolate products made in China and sold in Hong Kong, as the tainted milk scandal spreads worldwide.
The Centre for Food Safety was informed by Cadbury Asia Pacific that the company would “as a precautionary step” recall the 11 chocolate products that were manufactured in its Beijing plant and distributed to Hong Kong.
Cadbury Asia Pacific told the Hong Kong government’s Centre for Food Safety the chocolates were made in Cadbury’s factory in the Chinese capital Beijing, the Hong Kong government said in a statement.
It wasn’t immediately clear if tests found the industrial chemical melamine – which is at the centre of the powered milk scandal – in the products.
“We appeal to the public to stop consuming the chocolate products concerned. We would alert the trade to stop selling the affected products,” the centre said in a statement, adding that the products would be tested for melamine.
The recalled products included smaller and bulk packs of dark chocolate, milk chocolate and cookies chocolate.
Local supermarket chains have also voluntarily taken off shelves Oreo wafers, M&Ms and Snickers after the Indonesian government announced that high traces of melamine were found in those popular products imported from China.
Melamine found in milk powder and milk products is blamed for the death of four infants in China and thousands of children being hospitalised.
So far, Hong Kong has found 19 tainted products in the market, including milk, ice-cream bars, biscuits, cakes, crackers, milk candies and most recently baby cereal made by US food maker Heinz.
Health authorities here have said five infants, aged between two and 10 years, developed kidney stones after drinking mainland milk products for months.
A 4-month-old baby in nearby Macao was also diagnosed with kidney stones after consuming a Nestle baby formula that was made in China and tested positive for melamine.
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Post time: Jun-13-2017