snowbunny

Mine was in a can and made in Glasgae. I wonder what the penalties are for food importers who bring in these highly toxic substances. I'm thinking it might not be much or I can't see how they'd make money given the caprice of the FDA.

David C

How long ago was it? As I posted in an earlier reply, a well known wholesaler whom I use told me that they could not supply Fruit Pastels for the time being as the FDA had inspected their facilities and confiscated their entire supply, along with a few other things, for destruction. Smarties are the same but one of my suppliers was able to get both of these items for me until just recently, from whom I don't know. The rules appear to change frequently on what goes on or comes off the banned list as you can see by visiting the FDA site www.fda.gov and type in IrnBru in their search engine on the home page. There you will see it was refused due to 'Unsafe Coloring' from March 2004. I think the wholesalers will risk modest supplies otherise they stand to loose a lot!

anotherlimey

There's a whole list of UK foods here:

http://www.fda.gov/ora/oasis/7/ora_oasis_c_gb.html

Included on the list are:

Smarties
Fruit Pastels
Salad cream
Heinz tinned spotted dick


-tom

delphiman

A lot of those are banned due to "Unsafe Coloring"...erm anyone spot the irony here?

TouristTrap

Whenever the kids get a craving for Smarties, I hop over to my local health food store and buy them the organic 'm and m's'. Taste very similar to Smarties (they just don't get the pretty box to shake ).

Suffolk Bumpkin

Amen....

AdobePinon

Anton Berg shows up in very random places at very random times. Costco will occasionally get a supply from somewhere for a few weeks at a time. We have a discount store here called Big Lots which for some weird reason sometimes has Anton Berg - I'd love to know where they're getting them from.

Anyone looking for the Marabou chocolates should try Ikea.

NC Penguin

I'm a big fan of Costco and the possibility of finding Anton Berg chocs there is a good incentive to renew my membership.

I would never have imagined that Big Lots would ever stock Anton Berg products. I do keep my eyes peeled in stores like Tuesday Morning, TJ Maxx, Ross and similar but I've not seen the AB chocs I like.

I have seen Marabou in the local drugstores though (CVS, Eckerd)...




NC Penguin

TheWilliamsons

Heinz Baked Beans sorry to say my container that is being shipped to the USA is full of Beans and Roses Marmelade so how sad is that but hey Im a mother and the kids want their beans LOL

neil

Here's some interesting (and timely) information about colourings:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4286963.stm