Dubai: Dubai Municipality officials will meet representatives of US chocolate giant Mars after the company announced a massive recall of Mars and Snickers bars made at its Dutch factory after a piece of plastic found in one snack was traced back to the site.
Millions of chocolate bars were deemed possibly unsafe for consumption in 55 countries after a customer in Germany found a piece of red plastic in his Snickers bar last month, agencies reported late Tuesday.
Khaled Sharif Al Awadhi, Executive Director of Food Control at Dubai Municipality, said on Wednesday Mars had announced a voluntary recall of some of their chocolates.
“We are going to meet with the company's representatives and see if there are any chocolates here from the batch in question,” he added.
The municipality is waiting for the outcome of this meeting and investigations before it considers a recall for the chocolates in the emirate.
The recall of the chocoholic snacks also affects Milky Way minis and some boxes of Celebrations, and hit most European countries. But it also extended as far as Vietnam and Sri Lanka in Asia.
“As far as we know there are 55 countries involved,” Eline Bijveld, Mars corporate affairs coordinator for the Netherlands told AFP, refusing to divulge the whole list.
