US on guard against chocolate eggs
Jul 22, 2012, 12:46 pm
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These are banned in the United States under the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and have never been available in the U.S. The United States is the only country that bans the eggs.
The Wikipedia article is a bit weak on details but can be found here. The link goes to the section on the U.S. ban of the eggs.
CBP press release
The Wikipedia article is a bit weak on details but can be found here. The link goes to the section on the U.S. ban of the eggs.
CBP press release
I've also seen them at import stores in Houston, most likely ordered "illegally" for resale.
Apr 8, 2013, 12:40 pm
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Kinder eggs on sale at YUL after CBP!
Was I ever surprised to see Kinder eggs on sale at YUL after CBP preclearance...
This brings up an interesting situation: does CBP have jurisdiction over what items are sold on the "US side" at non-US airports (e.g. where there is preclearance)? I suppose not.
There certainly seems to be no process in place to protect the children from the nefarious chocolate eggs!
This brings up an interesting situation: does CBP have jurisdiction over what items are sold on the "US side" at non-US airports (e.g. where there is preclearance)? I suppose not.
There certainly seems to be no process in place to protect the children from the nefarious chocolate eggs!
Apr 8, 2013, 12:46 pm
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Was I ever surprised to see Kinder eggs on sale at YUL after CBP preclearance...
This brings up an interesting situation: does CBP have jurisdiction over what items are sold on the "US side" at non-US airports (e.g. where there is preclearance)? I suppose not.
There certainly seems to be no process in place to protect the children from the nefarious chocolate eggs!
This brings up an interesting situation: does CBP have jurisdiction over what items are sold on the "US side" at non-US airports (e.g. where there is preclearance)? I suppose not.
There certainly seems to be no process in place to protect the children from the nefarious chocolate eggs!
US ban of Kinder eggs cracked at last
Also, reported on here: http://consumerist.com/2013/03/14/no...al-in-the-u-s/
Apr 8, 2013, 12:50 pm
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Was I ever surprised to see Kinder eggs on sale at YUL after CBP preclearance...
This brings up an interesting situation: does CBP have jurisdiction over what items are sold on the "US side" at non-US airports (e.g. where there is preclearance)? I suppose not.
There certainly seems to be no process in place to protect the children from the nefarious chocolate eggs!
This brings up an interesting situation: does CBP have jurisdiction over what items are sold on the "US side" at non-US airports (e.g. where there is preclearance)? I suppose not.
There certainly seems to be no process in place to protect the children from the nefarious chocolate eggs!
Apparently, the Kinder Egg problem has a solution...lol:
US ban of Kinder eggs cracked at last
Also, reported on here: http://consumerist.com/2013/03/14/no...al-in-the-u-s/
US ban of Kinder eggs cracked at last
Also, reported on here: http://consumerist.com/2013/03/14/no...al-in-the-u-s/
Apr 8, 2013, 12:56 pm
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Apr 8, 2013, 6:00 pm
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According to statistics*, through almost 30 years of Kinder Surprise being on the market, at least six children worldwide have died from choking on the toys. They were ruled out as unfortunate fatalities.
Apr 8, 2013, 6:08 pm
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There were actually at least two children who died in past. But one also has to point out that many children have died over the years after choking on toy parts (along with coins and other small items) http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opi...114854969.html
On the telephone from Britain, now, is a woman named Glenys Ashton who manages a charity shop called Sense in the city of Birmingham. Twenty-one years ago last November, on Guy Fawkes Night -- "everything was going boom-boom outside" -- Mrs. Ashton's three-year-old daughter Jennifer choked to death on a part of a Pink Panther figurine from a Kinder Surprise chocolate egg.
So there was a tragic side to the "reassuring and emotional experience" as well.
The Ashton family campaigned to have the candies banned in Britain, testified before a committee of Parliament, and argued that the warning label was, to say the least, insufficient because, as Glenys tells me, "every child we know of who died has been thirty-six months or over."
This was true; a boy named Roddy Breslin from Northern Ireland already was three when he choked on the wheel and axle of a tiny truck.
So there was a tragic side to the "reassuring and emotional experience" as well.
The Ashton family campaigned to have the candies banned in Britain, testified before a committee of Parliament, and argued that the warning label was, to say the least, insufficient because, as Glenys tells me, "every child we know of who died has been thirty-six months or over."
This was true; a boy named Roddy Breslin from Northern Ireland already was three when he choked on the wheel and axle of a tiny truck.