Serious Halal row:Saudi Arabia Tests Cadbury Samples.

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Published — Sunday 1 June 2014

Halal row: KSA tests Cadbury samples

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The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has pulled out a random selection of Cadbury chocolate bars from the market to test for traces of porcine DNA following reports that surfaced from Malaysia stating that some locally produced Cadbury milk bars were found to contain pork derivatives.
An SFDA statement said that a periodic check for non-halal ingredients in food products by the Malaysian Health Ministry confirmed the presence of porcine DNA in Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut and Cadbury Dairy Milk Roast Almond bars, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The SFDA said that it then pulled out samples of the product that had been imported from various countries with different batch numbers to ensure that they did not contain traces of pork, which is forbidden in Islam.
“Cadbury products manufactured in Malaysia are not registered with us since we import from other countries such as Egypt and the United Kingdom,” Salah Al-Maiman, deputy executive chairman of the food section at the SFDA, said in the statement.
“Nevertheless, the SFDA will take strong steps if any sample tests positive for porcine DNA traces,” he said.
He urged consumers who come across milk hazelnut bars with operating number 200813M01HI2 (expiry date 13/11/14) or milk roast almond bars with operating number 221013N01RI1

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Halal Row:
Cadbury says all its products
in Indonesia are halal.
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
| Headlines |
Sun, June 01 2014, 10:43 AM
The Indonesian arm of British confectioner Cadbury says all of its products sold in Indonesia are halal, following the discovery of pork DNA in two of its halal-certified products in Malaysia.

In a statement from Cadbury Indonesia sent to The Jakarta Post on Saturday, the company said that it had not imported two Malaysian-made Cadbury confections, Milk Hazelnut and Milk Roast Almond chocolate, although both previously received approval in Malaysia.

Concerns emerged after Malaysian authorities said that the products contained pork DNA. Halal-certified food products must not contain any essence of pork, according to Muslim standards.

“We understand how truly important the issue is for our customers in Indonesia,” the statement said.

The company said that the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued halal certifications for all its other products imported from Malaysia, the manufacturing facilities and the raw materials used in production.

A Cadbury Indonesia representative who declined to be named to discuss the issue said on Saturday that the company would monitor the situation in Malaysia before taking further action.

According to Malaysian media, Cadbury Malaysia is standing by its halal certification and is awaiting the results of an analysis conducted by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim), the local halal certification body.

“We stand by our halal certification and we have the highest levels of product labeling standards,” read a statement from the company, as quoted by The Star daily from Malaysia.

The discovery has reignited debate on the sensitive issue of halal products. For Cadbury consumer Nadia Aulia Rahmi, 22, the revelations in Malaysia have made her wary of the credibility of halal certifications.

“As a Muslim country, Malaysia should have higher standards for the halal certification process compared to Indonesia, where the regulations are more lax,” Nadia told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

“If Malaysians managed to make the mistake [of wrongfully identifying a product as halal], then what significance does the halal symbol even have?” the postgraduate student said.

Nadia, who said she always does research before buying, relies on the halal symbol to save her from guesswork for her strict Muslim diet.

Previously, the Indonesian Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) said that it had not issued import licenses for the two recalled Cadbury products and that any such products sold locally were imported illegally.

The agency also said it was acting to ensure that the haram products did not enter Indonesia’s market.

The MUI’s food and drugs unit, which has the authority to issue halal certifications, promptly tested 10 Cadbury products following the news in Malaysia.

According to the unit, no pork DNA was found in any of the products.(tjs)

~News.
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Alhamdulillah.
 
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Brunei Times.
Pig (porcine) DNA in Cadbury.
CADBURY chocolates that according to the Malaysian government tested positive for porcine DNA were still found on grocery shelves in Brunei .
The porcine-laced chocolate products are Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut, with batch number 200813M01H I2 which expires on November 13, 2014, and Cadbury Dairy Milk Roast Almond with batch number 221013N01R I1 which expires on January 15, 2015.

The Brunei Times spotted at least one of these affected products containing the exact batch number during visit to a mini-mart found in Gadong yesterday.

A shopkeeper at the mini-mart said many customers had enquired whether the Cadbury products were contaminated.

When asked, the Brunei distributor for Cadbury said it was “unsure” whether the products were affected, as they had yet to receive any information concerning the chocolate products from the Bruneian government.

The distributor confirmed that the Malaysian Cadbury chocolate products found in Brunei were “directly imported from Malaysia”.

Brunei’s Ministry of Health, when contacted, said the matter is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA). No information on the matter was received from MoRA yesterday.

Malaysian Head Director of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah yesterday issued a statement online stating that the Malaysian MoH had analysed ‘Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut’ and ‘Cadbury Dairy Milk Roast Almond’ chocolates, and found that these tested positive for porcine DNA.

The tests had been conducted following social media rumours on Thursday about the potentially contaminated chocolates.

The Malaysian health ministry advised consumers to read the batch number of the chocolate products before buying or consuming it.

The Brunei Times .
This News was reported and brought on Sunday, May 25, 2014

~Must not consume as both batch proven contaminated and tested positive !!!
 
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1)Cadbury chocolate cleared in Malaysia after pork scare;
->Cadbury pulled its Dairy Milk hazelnut and Dairy Milk roast almond products from shelves in Muslim-majority

2)Further tests on Cadbury chocolate bars found no traces of pig DNA, a Malaysian minister said Monday, after earlier positive results of the halal-certified confectioneries sparked a scare in several Muslim countries.


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This file photo shows a bar of Cadbury's chocolate. (AFP/Leon Neal)

KUALA LUMPUR: Further tests on Cadbury chocolate bars found no traces of pig DNA, a Malaysian minister said Monday, after earlier positive results of the halal-certified confectioneries sparked a scare in several Muslim countries.

Cadbury pulled its Dairy Milk hazelnut and Dairy Milk roast almond products from shelves in Muslim-majority Malaysia last week after a health ministry routine test found the chocolate contained traces of pork.

Pork is strictly banned in Islam, and the test results caused Malaysian Muslim consumer groups to call for a boycott of Cadbury, and Muslim countries Indonesia and Saudi Arabia to start to test the products too.

But Malaysia's Islamic affairs minister,Y.B Major General Dato' Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, said in a statement Monday that 11 chocolate bar samples from Cadbury's factory tested negative for pork DNA in tests by Islamic authorities.

However, the halal certification for the two types of bars will remain suspended until further tests and investigations can be done, he added.

"Full-scale tests will be conducted on Cadbury's entire production chain including raw materials, process flow, storage and equipment,"Y.B Major General Dato' Seri Jamil Khir said.

Malaysia's fatwa council last week told Muslims they could continue to eat Cadbury as the contamination likely occurred after the chocolates left the factory and so was "beyond the scope of control".

In a statement Friday, Cadbury Malaysia said it had "no reason to believe that there is any porcine or pork-related ingredient" in its chocolates and was cooperating with authorities testing them.

Britain's Cadbury, owned by Mondelez International, is the world's second largest confectionery brand after Wrigley's.

- AFP/xq

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