Hong Kong - Chocolate maker Cadbury is recalling 11 types of chocolate bars made at its Beijing plant and sold in Hong Kong, health officials said Monday. The decision was made voluntarily by the company in response to the scare over melamine found in dairy products from China that have killed four infants and sickened tens of thousands of children.
Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety, which has been testing products from China since the scandal broke, said Cadbury was withdrawing the chocolate bars "as a precautionary step."
A spokesman for the centre said: "We appeal to the public to stop consuming the chocolate products concerned."
"We would alert the trade to stop selling the affected products. The Centre would test the related products. We are closely monitoring the situation."
The chocolate bars withdrawn from sale by Cadbury include Dairy Milk chocolate bars, Milk Cookies, Milk Hazelnut and packets of Cadbury Eclairs.
