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Easter's iconic candy, Egg chocolate, is a popular product for the spring season. However, buyer beware when choosing Kinder chocolate egg candy products of Ferrero Company made in Belgium. They are likely to be dangerous. In particular, they may be contaminated with Salmonella and are being recalled by the manufacturer.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has just issued Official Letter No. 1887 to the Vietnam Retailers Association; Vietnam Market Development Association and food distribution businesses about providing information on food products that do not guarantee food safety and requesting to recall Kinder chocolate egg candies.

Here are the products which have been recalled, and the best before dates included:

1. Kinder Surprise (20g): All dates up to and including 04 January 2023

Kinder Surprise (20g). Photo: Key Global Trends

2. Kinder Surprise (20g x 3 pack): All dates up to and including 04 January 2023

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3. Kinder Surprise (100g): All dates up to and including 21 August 2022

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4. Kinder Mini eggs (75g): All dates up to and including 21 August 2022

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5. Kinder Egg Hunt Kit (150g): All dates up to and including 21 August 2022

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6. Kinder Schokobons (70g, 200g and 320g): All dates up to and including 04 January 2023

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What is a Salmonella infection?

Salmonella bacterial infections, which causes intestinal infection can spread from the intestines into the bloodstream and other organs in the body.

The salmonella bacteria leave the body through the feces of infected people and animals. Others become infected when hands, food, or objects (contaminated with contaminated feces) are put in their mouths.

Most cases of Salmonella infection have the following signs and symptoms within 12-72 hours of exposure to the bacteria:

- Diarrhea: Loose, viscous, yellow-brown ordure, with strong smell, about 5-6 times/day

- Continuous high fever (39 or 40 degrees Celsius)

- Blood in stool.

- Abdominal pain and bloating in the right iliac fossa.

- Neurotoxicity due to Salmonella bacteria toxins (headache, insomnia, nightmares, tinnitus, slurred speech).

- Small, flat rash on chest, abdomen, flanks. The rash appears for about 7-12 days and then disappears.

- In severe cases, people infected with Salmonella have symptoms of shaking hands to catch dragonflies or lying motionless, apathetic, lethargic, lethargic, delirious, or comatose (uncommon).

In rare cases, Salmonella infection can be fatal if the person is not treated timely correctly.

However, there are some people who are infected with Salmonella, but because the body already has antibodies, the number of bacteria is small and the virulence of the bacteria is weak, so they may have digestive disorders for a few days and then go away on their own.

A very small number of them become carriers of the bacteria, which can last for many months.

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What caused the salmonella outbreak?

European health officials investigating the salmonella outbreak linked to Kinder products have said they suspect it is related to buttermilk used in a Belgian factory.

A “Rapid Outbreak Assessment” released by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they had matched the same salmonella strain currently infecting people to samples taken from a factory in Belgium last December.

The report said “the processing step involving buttermilk was identified as the possible contamination point”, and hygiene measures were implemented.

It added that he factory “distributed the implicated chocolate products across Europe and globally after negative Salmonella testing”.

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