White Rabbit Candy recall

[superjaz]

I saw this today, and not to scare anyone with fear of tainted candy, but I have seen this candy at uwajimaya before.

Melamine, which is high in nitrogen, is used to make plastics and fertilizers and experts say some amount of the chemical may be transferred from the environment during food processing. But in China's case, suppliers trying to boost output are believed to have diluted their milk, adding melamine because its nitrogen content can fool tests aimed at verifying protein content

Last week, California health officials announced it discovered traces of melamine in White Rabbit candy it tested. Queensway Foods Company Inc. of California distributed the candy and says it is recalling it.
here is full story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_bi_ge/candy_melamine

so better safe then sorry, so check your pantry for any old white rabbit candy

[tofutakeout]

good 'ol recalls. *sigh* I've had some of that candy before not for a long time though. pretty interesting. thank god I hadn't bought any recently.

[superjaz]

me too on both counts which is why i thought i should post this here as i know i'm not the only girl to have really old asian candy in their pantry

[tofutakeout]

yeah I had some old Asian snack back there. some sort of cracker it's only problem was it was stale, heh.