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Corky · Joined: 06 Jan 2004

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1282049,00.html

Chinese Chocolate Has A Wriggly Surprise

Updated: 13:11, Thursday August 30, 2007
Chocolate munchers in South Korea were horrified to discover worms and moths crawling out of their favourite confectionery.
Customers made the gruesome discovery when unwrapping the Chinese-manufactured chocolates, which imitate a popular international chocolate brand.
Mouth-watering chocolates
Mouth-watering chocolates

The worms and moths were found crawling out of tiny holes in the chocolate when the consumers opened the foil wrappers.

The bugs had even managed to eat several chocolate balls.

Professor Ahn Young-chul, of Eulji University, said: "It seems to be seriously contaminated during the manufacturing process since the larvae of Plodia Interpun were found."
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One consumer, who bought the chocolate during a trip to China, said the manufacturers had insisted he go back to China with the chocolate if he wanted compensation.

Lee Nam-hee, researcher for consumer rights, said: "There can be a sort of argument with the consumers about whether these worms appeared during the manufacturing process."

The fear is that the Chinese-made chocolates will add to concerns over goods manufactured in China.

Toothpaste, sweets, tyres and medicine exported from China in recent months have been found to be faulty.

However, several consumers have also found worms in a local Korean-made brand of chocolate.

Too bad they don't mention which brands.

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

EWW!!!

I'll be sticking to my cookies, thank you!

Atavistic · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:03 am Post subject:

The Reuters video on this dubbed the spoken Korean, but failed to translate the written Korean under the boxes. Two words and they were too lazy to translate it.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

This isn't like the cardboard man du or foetus is it?

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

I was given a free chocolate bar in 2005 when I purchased a blouse at QUA in he Ewha Uni area. They were giving them away for Valentine's Day. Anyways, I took the chocolate bar to work to share with my students and when I unwraped it, half of it was gone, like something had eaten through half of it. Yuck!