Posted on 05/11/2007 7:06:29 AM PDT by EggsAckley
WATSONVILLE Less than 24 hours after the California Department of Health Services issued a warning for consumers to beware of lead-contaminated Mexican candy, a Santa Cruz County health inspector Thursday found buckets of the candy inside a small store in Watsonville.
John Hodges told the owner, Gil Garcia of Productos Diana, to remove the candy from the shelves until tests are conducted by the state to see how much lead is in it if any.
The owner of the store, located in the back of the Watsonville Discount Mall at Beach and Rodriguez streets, immediately complied, saying he wasn't aware of the latest recall. He said he bought the candy from a warehouse in Los Angeles a little over a month ago and wasn't sure how much he has sold since.
"This is the sort of stuff that's sweet and tart
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
Me too. If I'm reduced to being that hungry, I hope I have a hook & line & can use the sucker as bait to catch some real food.
If Sees moves, let me know, I’ve got their fudge recipe and it’s super easy!!
Bye Bye Hershey!
Do you remember some time back, maybe a year, a bunch of cheese was contaminated from Mexico? And the veggies...forget that because they use any manner of chemical. Good luck finding any that aren’t grown down there.
thanks to open borders and nafta.
our govt has sold us down the river.
the environmentalists are responsible as well.
Here we go.
NYC Health Dept. Warns Against Consumption of Some Imported ...
NEW YORK CITY March 15, 2005 Several types of cheese imported from Mexico may be contaminated with Mycobacterium bovis, which causes tuberculosis, ...
www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr/pr022-05.shtml
FDA Warns About Soft Cheese Health Risk. ... either imported from Mexico or consumed in Mexico, contaminated with Mycobacterium bovis, the causative agent. ...
www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/fda_cheese.html
Rats. Nothing near me. Hopefully they will expand.
I’ll have to get some of those for the freezer stash. The good thing is Reese’s freezes well. Then it will just be a matter of rationing.
Glad I could help a fellow choco-holic :)
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