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White Rabbit Candy Recall

Parents and students:  if you have any candy bars at your house with a logo of a white rabbit on the packaging, throw them away! A recall has been issued on all White Rabbit candy bars, as it is believed that they may be contaminated with melamine.

These contaminated candy bars were distributed to California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington state.

If you are not familiar with melamine, here is a little description of the chemical along with the possible harmful side effects.

Melamine is an organic base that contains 66% nitrogen and can be used as a fire retardant when mixed with resins. The chemical has many industrial uses, and that is partially why it has ended up in the White Rabbit candies.

A Shanghai-based Guanshengyuan company – who imports the candies – released the recall when they discovered that melamine had been found in their milk products. The milk scandal has killed 4 babies and has made 53,000 people in China sick.

So what can happen if you were to eat a tainted White Rabbit candy? In high doses it can cause fatal kidney stones and chronic exposure may cause cancer or reproductive damage. Melamine is also an eye, skin and respiratory irritant.

The most common illness related to the consumption of melamine is kidney stones and renal failure – that is what the majority of the milk scandal hospitalizations were from.

So just be sure to discard any White Rabbit candies and if you have any questions or concerns, you can contact the White Rabbit company at 650-697-6633.