Cadbury warns Dairy Milk eaters about its 'milk and nut ingredients' .

Britain's most famous chocolate maker, Cadbury, has decided to warn chocolate
lovers that its product contains - milk.





Britain's
most famous chocolate maker, Cadbury, has decided to warn chocolate
lovers that its product contains milk, as a warning to people who are
allergic to it.

The latest Dairy Milk wrappers feature a logo showing a glass and a
half of milk being poured into a chocolate chunk, put milk first in a
list of ingredients and explains that there is "The equivalent of three
quarters of a pint of milk of fresh liquid milk in every half pound of
milk chocolate".But Cadbury says it is also necessary to print
warnings in capital letters in yellow boxes saying "CONTAINS: MILK" in
case people who are allergic to milk do not realise that there is milk
in Cadbury Dairy Milk bars."Cadbury is printing similar warnings on bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk Whole Nut. Those
warnings say: "CONTAINS: NUTS, MILK." Wrappers on individual chunks of
Cadbury Dairy Milk Whole Nut found in boxes of Cadbury Heroes repeat
the
warning "CONTAINS: NUTS" four times.A Cadbury spokesman said the
company was complying with the law relating the presence of allergens
in food."We are meeting legal requirements," he said. "We want people
to know that allergens are listed clearly on a warning on the back of
all products."A support group for people who are allergic to certain
foods said Cadbury was going beyond the requirements of the law.Moira
Austin, help line manager for the Anaphylaxis Campaign said she could
understand why people would say Cadbury was "stating the blindingly
obvious"
or think that the "world had gone mad".But she added: "The law requires
manufacture to list allergens if they are an ingredient. "It does not
require these additional warnings."I
suspect the answer is that Cadbury has a policy of listing allergens
clearly on all its products - including chocolate - so that people know
where to look."Three years ago it emerged that Tesco was
labelling milk cartons with the warning: "Allergy Advice: Contains
Milk" and bags of assorted nuts with the warning: "Allergy Advice:
Contains Nuts".




You have been warned ! Do you think it is right and proper to give out these warnings ?