Salmonella doesn’t live Cadbury in peace: more products under investigation

Cadbury first detected a rare strain of salmonella in samples of its chocolate crumb - a sugar, milk and cocoa mix - in January.

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The company told the FSA of the contamination on June 19. The crumb, made at its Herefordshire factory, is used as the base for products made at the Cadbury factories near Birmingham and Bath, according to Scotsman.

The products affected and then withdrawn from sale included Cadbury's 250g Dairy Milk Turkish, Dairy Milk Caramel and Dairy Milk Mint bars, the Dairy Milk eight-chunk bar and the 1kg Dairy Milk bar.

The mix used to make the brands that were removed was also used to make other brands that were not removed. Up to 30 brands could be affected. The Food Standards Agency said that in view of this it is not possible to exclude the other brands from the possible contaminated list, according to the Medical News Today.

Cadbury's says that it has tested literally tens of thousands of items of confectionary and has not identified one single case of salmonella contamination. Product lines are currently being tested at least four times each day, says the company.