Almost 28,000 Haagen-Dazs ice-creams worth 12 million baht were destroyed in Samut Prakan Monday, even though the samples had not been found to be contain a chemical linked to cancer.
According to today’s Bangkok Post, the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deputy secretary-general Weerachai Nolwachai said on Tuesday that a number of countries in Europe had recalled Haagen-Dazs ice cream from sale after an historical alert that batches with expiring between March 16 and April 23, 2023, may be contaminated with pesticide.
The substance in question, 2-chloroethanol is a product of ethylene oxide, a pesticide that is not permitted for use in foods sold in the European Union, but is in some countries outside the EU. Since 2020, there have been about 3,000 recalls due to ethylene oxide in the EU. There have been many more outside the EU, including a recent high-profile international recall of Häagen-Dazs ice cream that was distributed to about 80 countries. At that time, the Thai Food and Drug Administration confirmed that none of the cancer-linked batches were imported to Thailand.
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