News Forum - Unhappy days! More Haagen-Dazs destroyed in cancer scare

[Thaiger]

Almost 28,000 Haagen-Dazs ice creams worth 12 million baht were destroyed in Samut Prakan Monday, even though the samples had not been found to contain a chemical linked to cancer. According to today’s Bangkok Post, the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deputy secretary-general, Weerachai Nolwachai, said on Tuesday that a number of countries in Europe had recalled Haagen-Dazs ice cream from sale after an historical alert that batches with expiring dates between March 16 and April 23, 2023, may be contaminated with pesticide. The substance in question, 2-chloroethanol is a product of ethylene oxide, a pesticide that is not permitted […]

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[ChrisS]

"Samut Prakan public health office oversaw the incineration of the products"

Not the easiest thing to burn Ice cream I would have thought :)