US Recall News will be keeping you up-to-date on candy recalls as we approach the Halloween holiday. Type “Candy” into our search function or click here to see the latest candy recalls.
For information about the White Rabbit candy recall of 2009 click here.
Some visitors to the site have expressed concern over recalled gold coin candies from China, which contain melamine – a chemical substance that can be harmful or fatal, as we unfortunately found out in last year’s pet food recalls.
The gold coin candies pictured here have been recalled in Canada. According to the FDA they have not been sold in the United States. However, in-case some have made their way over the border please be on the look out for gold coin candy from Sherwood Brand Pirate’s Milk Chocolate Coins that say “Made in China”.
It was also found in infant formula and several babies in China died.that was a few weeks ago.l
Why do countries insist on importing things like candy from China. Especially with all the food problems China has had. How many people have to die before these companies quit importing this cheap crap. I guess the lives of our citizens is not as important as the bottom line for these greedy companies. They want it produced cheap. So what do they expect? To get it cheap you have to either cut corners in manufacturing or in actual quality inspections. With everything that has been recalled in the past few years of Chinese made products, there is no logical reason to keep putting people at risk by importing this stuff. Except greed. That is what it boils down to. With all the melamine and lead that has been used in Chinese products as short cuts to decent manufacturing, greed is the only thing that comes to mind. I would rather pay more for quality, safe products for my family as to take a chance on making them sick or killing one of them.
all china does is try to kill of the u.s
I don’t think the poisonous candy is about shortcuts…. The Chinese just want us dead!
are we sure this is not a terrorist attack? why don’t we support our own country and first! stop mass production in china, and closing all our factories here and moving them to china about the only thing they seem to get right our there cars! not that i would buy one cause i’d by american FIRST!!!! Thats what we all need to do!
LEAD, MELAMINE, ARSENIC, MERCURY!!!!! COME ONE PEOPLE!!!! WAKE UP, this is war against our country’s citizens, they’re plotting to kill us and we keep lapping it up dollar for dollar, we keep buying thier products! These are major poisons, remember the old days when you watched in movies that people would try to kill another with arsenic? Well, this is the kind of stuff that’s in thier products!? I think that they put in thier own products first, test in on thier own HIGH population to see if it’s effective, then ship it off to us with great big grins! Yeah, that’s right, ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM – China wants the world, and it’s thier dream.
I just don’t understand why we have companies here in Canada that produce all of the major foods that we need and we are getting them from other countries. If after all of the problems we have been having with them, why do we keep supporting them?? I believe that we should just stick with our own country`s factories because the food or the products that we produce are safe. Do we really need to keep spending money to make our own sick? Come on.
Okay, so this is just another thing we have “caught” the chinese doing. I am willing to bet that if you look at ALL of our imported goods from All over the world, we are bound to find a reason to put them on the chopping block as well. Everything we (mankind) make has some sort of defect whether it affects the economy or directly effects the product itself. Though many, if not almost ALL of these defects go un-noticed unless it happens to occur in greater numbers than what the companies consider a reason for a recall. I think it was Edward Norton that gave us the reality check of how far industries are willing to go and have people self-sacrifice unknowingly simply because of MONEY HUNGRY GROBELS!!! If you haven’t seen Fight Club then you probably don’t know what I am referring to. These companies spend X amount of dollars to come up with new and innovative products that are cost-efficient and still come out with a dependable product. Let’s take the recall on seat belt fasteners in Nissan and Toyota cars that occurred back in the ’90s. There was a piece of plastic that was supposed to be top of the line, like-metal, most reliable innovation for the inner latch for the seat belt cuplings. Even the preliminary tests showed that this product had held it’s ground in the battering line of tests they run before it is approved by the MVSRO (Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations Organization) and it was 1/20th the cost of the traditional latch that had serviced consumers very well this far. The problem was the plastic had not been tested on a vehicle that was practically used…i.e. one that is being constantlyexposed to the environment…they can only do so much in those labs…the true tests come from nature itself.
After a while, the spring behind the plastic latch receiver began losing it’s temper (rockwell scale is used to determine the hardness of metals and temper is a term used to describe metal being heated to a certain temperature and kept there for a length of time to cause molecular change in the metal and give it a certain level of durability…much like how knives, swords, and springs are made) and without the spring giving a good constant amount of pressure, it weakened, leaving the tooth( that little piece that latches thru that hole in your seat belt and clicks) which was now plastic rather than metal, vunerable for the metal clasp and it shaved off a little bit at a time which, after a while, made the tooth very weak. People who were in accidents and relied on their safety belts had a very rude, and almost always fatal and quick, awakening that their belt was malfunctioning.
A friend of mine, who, in both guys and girls’ minds, was a true model. I will refer to her as Annie. Annie just happened to have one of those clasps in her car and had not yet found out about the recall. She was on her way to a Major city to sign her contract with a modeling company that we had sent a portfolio and, thru long hours of talking on the phone and emailing, was accepted into their company. ALL she had to do was sign those papers. While en route, a drunk driver had blown thru an intersection that she was crossing and had almost a direct head-on collision. Annie fell victim to thatfaulty belt and damn near lost her life. Her arms and shoulders were deeply cut in SEVERAL places. broke both legs and shattered her left hip bone. and her Angelic face…cut up like a pumpkin and peeled like an onion…when she was hit, the belt came flying off and she went thru the front windshield and was thrown into the middle of a busy intersection only after being slapped by the hood of both her car and the other car and landed on her left side on the pavement and met a culvert that was responsible for the broken legs and bounced off of that into the middle of the street.
I know that was a horror story and I am sad to share with you that the company that made that particular clasp latch from right here in the good ole’ USA!!!
My point is this. Annie, like so many other unknown puppets of innovation that have suffered and died because of a flaw, is just a statistic used to determine wheher or not the recall will hurt their bottom line profit or if they will just let the product continue as is so that they don’t have to spend money or admit they were wrong and have to settle with those affected by it directly or if it is their loved ones trying to finish that last battle so that they can lay their loved ones down with peace.
If you really read thru all of that and think I hate my own country, you are DeAd wrong. my one true goal is only to bring many facts to the table and give all of those who read this a better idea that being able to cut costs in one place may end up with having to spend 90 times more in correcting it in another.
idiots.
China wants us to keep buying there stuff. We are the “other” big sales market.
They just have morons in quality control
i think china hates us and tris to kill us
all they want is for to be dead.. like they care for us?? stupid chineese people … killing innocent children lookin for something tasty to eat.. CHINEESE HATE UNITED STATES!
Yea, they hate us. With us gone who would buy all there junk? Without all the crap we buy what would keep those billion people busy day in day out……Hmmm if they were not kept busy there actually might be revolution over there….so in an odd way, WE are keeping their regime in place buy buying all there junk.
Since the first scare I heard about with toys, I always look to see if what I’m buying for my grandkids is made in china, and usually don’t buy it if it is especially if it is consumed ( lip gloss indluded ). I would like to know why we can’t try to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. where we can have more control over regulations and inspections. I believe that many Americans would love to invest in some new companies that are dedicated to manufacturing their goods here in the U.S., even if the jobs are only minimum wage jobs. Of course it would have to be strictly regulated to keep a good percentage of the profit going back to the investors, and not just to the top employees to get rich on As USUAL. But of course this would take some sharing and caring and money seems to create more pull. Or, maybe we should quit spending out hard earned money on so many trinkets we don’t REALLY need, made by manufacturers that are obviously insensitive to the well being of fellow human beings.
SERIOUSLY…….china COME ON we all know what your trying to do to us…… yea right- we didn’t know- doesn’t cut it, especily becasue we have heared it 50 BJILLION times. ya know what china, just pack your bags, full with your crap, and just get out of the milky way, got it? o yea thats right i don’t speak moron so they can’t understand me.