Melamine-Tainted Candy Found In CT

[eppur_se_muova]

Source: WFSB

Melamine-Tainted Candy Found In CT
Chemical Associated With Other Recalls, Commissioner Says

POSTED: 2:23 pm EDT October 1, 2008
UPDATED: 3:53 pm EDT October 1, 2008

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Department of Consumer Protection warned consumers Wednesday not to eat "White Rabbit Creamy Candy," imported from China and distributed by Queensway Foods Company Inc. of Burlingame, Calif.

The candy was found on several Connecticut store shelves the week of Sept. 29 by agency food safety inspectors and removed, agency Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. said. Tests by the Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station Laboratory have determined that the product contains melamine, he said.



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To nitpick, this should not be called *tainted* or *contaminated*, but rather, adultered, since the melamine was added in an attempt to deceive and defraud, not added accidentally or unknowingly.

[Burma Jones]

1. White Rabbit Creamy Candy?

Sounds more like something I ate at a Dead Show once......

[madmax]

3. lol n/t

[drgonzosghost]

4. Phish is getting back together!!!

I know that has nothing to do with this, but it IS news that matters!

[Pavulon]

12. That is the single most important thing

I learned first here in recent years. No shit. I learned to see parking lots in a whole new light...

[amdezurik]

5. The White Bunny Acid is BAAAAAAAD

don't take it man!

[truedelphi]

9. Thanks for the reminder of

What went wrong for me during this lifetime - if only I had avoided that White Bunny Acid (followed by the smokin' crack chaser!)

[hootinholler]

7. Go ask Alice,

I think she'll know.

-Hoot

[louis-t]

2. Lemon Wacky Hello?

Seriously, I am suspicious of ingredients from China being added to food. Just had a bout with atrial fibrillation, and I am eliminating things 1 at a time until I feel better. Herbal stimulants are 1 cause of this.

[amdezurik]

6. not even adulterated

it is poison pure and simple. And there is no excuse for it since that is ONLY used on poor quality items to fool the testers to indicate there is more protien then is really there. They KNOW it is deadly yet we still give them MFN trade status? Guess all those trillins in T-bills is paying for that...

[Indenturedebtor]

10. Actually it's thought that most of the melamine comes from pesticides

that are absorbed from plants.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HKG120043.htm

[bluesmail]

8. Don't buy anything from China, esp if it doesn't have an origin.

Rat Bastards who did this NAFTA, I am so mad.

[Habibi]

11. What's all this poisoned candy going to do to Halloween??

[hedgehog]

14. A lot of novelty candy is imported from China and the Far East. I'm thinking

of some wax bottles filled with a sugar syrup that I saw one time. We used to get them when we were kids. You bite off the "cap" and drink the syrup. The last time I saw this candy, it was imported from the Philippines.

[Habibi]

16. Hey, upstate neighbor!

:hi: I pass through Fulton a lot in the summer, on the way to Sandy Pond.

Re: the candy--I remember those wax bottles. And wax lips! But really, I'm wondering how much of our typical Halloween treats are either imported whole from China or made with Chinese ingredients.

So now, will we have to not only x-ray treats, but test them for melamine as well?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. seriously though, there should be more regulation. CEOs should be fined

[Shanti Mama]

15. Laugh, but...

White Rabbit candy is a staple here in Nepal because it's so cheap. We are just beginning the long Hindu festival of Dashain and candy is a key element of the whole thing, along with animal sacrifice... Anyway, I've been trying to inform Nepalis I know about how important it is not to give their kids candy from China but most Nepalis outside Kathmandu don't read newspapers, have no clue about what's going on outside their villages. this is going to get serious, I think. Maybe not in America but there ARE other people in the world to think about.

[Kablooie]

17. White Rabbit is a Chinese candy usually sold only in Chinese related stores.

The wrapper and logo is distinctively Chinese.
It looks nothing like an American candy.
So it's no surprise that it was adulterated.

[OhioChick]

18. Melamine-Tainted Candy Found In U.S.

Source: AP

POSTED: 8:24 am EDT October 2, 2008

Health officials in several states said White Rabbit Candy from China may be contaminated with a substance blamed for sickening thousands of infants in China.

So far, the chemical melamine has been found in candy being sold in California and four Connecticut stores, and Oregon officials said it may be there as well.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the candy is imported from China and distributed to stores in eight states, including Oregon.

The vanilla-flavored candy is available in most U.S. Chinatowns.

Melamine has been associated with contaminated infant formula and other Chinese products containing milk protein.

The FDA said no illnesses were associated with the candy.

Oregon's human services department said the candy has been recalled by its distributor, QFCO Inc. of Burlingame, Calif.

"We're concerned, obviously, there may have been bags sold of these before we got to them," said Connecticut Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. said.

Anyone who has the candy should destroy it, Farrell said.

Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/health/17605812/detail.html

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I figured it was only a matter of time before it showed up in the U.S.

[Norrin Radd]

19. I've had a few of those, a few years ago. They sell it at Uwajimaya here in

Seattle. Really crappy candy. I've a friend who loves those, though. Have to warn her.

[JonQ]

20. We really need to stop

importing anything that can be ingested from China. They seem to be on some sort of crusade right now to kill everything they can and until they get it out of their system we should steer clear.

[TechBear_Seattle]

21. How the bloody hell does this kind of poison get into food?

This has become such a problem in the last year and a half, I have to wonder how culpable our own government is in all of this.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Melamine is nitrogen-rich. When they test for N content in food,

they assume protein is responsible for most of the N. So adding melamine 'spikes' the protein test, and brings a higher price for the product being adultered, say, soy meal.

[Bake]

22. How does this crap get into candy or milk?

Apart from being intentionally put in there, of course.

Bake

[jmowreader]

26. That's exactly how it gets in there

I note that all the things in the latest melamine attack are milk-based. What seems to be happening is someone at one of the big dairy farms decided he could make more money on his milk if he thinned it with water. He knew buyers tend to test large quantities of milk for protein content to...well, make sure no one's thinning it with water...so he added an ingredient that fools the protein test into thinking it's unadulterated milk.

Unfortunately, the ingredient kills people and animals who eat it but hey, THIS guy doesn't eat what he sells...

[bugisbug]

23. I just choked on my Now & Later.

Thanks, China.

[Theres-a]

25. *tainted* DARKSIDED!!11!

Of all the names though,seriously..."white bunny"..really.Just sota surreal sounding name for candy.

[NickB79]

27. Crap, crap, crap, I ate that brand last year

A Chinese friend of mine gave me some to try, and it was pretty good. It comes in an edible rice-paper wrapper, which I thought was neat.

Good thing it was just a few pieces, so I'm not worried about health effects, but I need to contact my friend to make sure she's heard of this.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. Halloween is just around the corner...

Living in a multi-ethnic neighborhood, my kids have brought home interesting treats from around the world. I always thought it was cool until now.

There needs to be a concerted effort to get this info to people before they hand out treats or let their kids consume them.