News Forum - FDA says Thailand unaffected by contaminated Haagen-Dazs

[Thaiger]

Ice cream lovers of Thailand can rest easy tonight, knowing that their Haagen-Dazs won’t kill them. The Thai Food and Drug Administration confirmed that none of the batches of cancer-linked contaminated ice cream discovered in other countries were imported to Thailand. Known for their high-quality premium ice cream, a recent batch of Haagan-Dazs was discovered in France with a less desirable ingredient – 2-Chloroethanol – a compound found in ethylene oxide. The chemical compound is used as a cleaning agent and pesticide but is known to be carcinogenic and damage DNA. The French first detected traces of the chemical last […]

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[Marc26]

Häagen-Dazs in Thailand may be the most expensive food I've ever purchased, pound for pound

 

Shit it priced like truffles. 5555

[DesperateOldHand]

Mai phen rai.

It's not the general Thai nature to consumed cow's milk and byproducts, lest the less than healthy Western processed and engineered type.

[Mohandas]

Ain't commercially processed food fun.

[Janneman]

7 hours ago, DesperateOldHand said:

Mai phen rai.

It's not the general Thai nature to consumed cow's milk and byproducts, lest the less than healthy Western processed and engineered type.

Which is why I make my own icecream. Without milk or cream.

[Augratin]

7 hours ago, Mohandas said:

Ain't commercially processed food fun.

It was the commercial aspect that made tracing possible, and allow the government to certify that imports here were not affected. Had this happened in some small mom & pop home-based shop, nobody would have know its source and slow poisonings would likely have gone on for years.

[Augratin]

14 hours ago, DesperateOldHand said:

Mai phen rai.

It's not the general Thai nature to consumed cow's milk and byproducts, lest the less than healthy Western processed and engineered type.

 

Almost every Thai person I know loves both cheese and ice cream.  You know that Swensen's is a popular ice cream chain here, right?  McD's has it on soft-serve, pizza company offers it on their dessert menu. And then there are those ice cream ladies who ride around on bicycles.

And ice cream isn't "engineered", so I'm not sure what you were thinking when you wrote that.