You know the little Kinder bars with the creamy filling? Of course you do.
Well a German food watchdog is demanding that the chocolate bars be recalled after tests found that they contain a mineral oil which “may be carcinogenic.”
Foodwatch found that the Kinder Reigel contained mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) and has called for the bar, available in some Aldi stores in Germany, to be removed from shelves.
Johannes Heeg, a campaigner for Foodwatch, told The Local:
“There is no acceptable levels of mineral oils in food for consumption… You can’t see it, you can’t taste it, but it’s in there.”
MOAH which “can cause cancer” was also found in two other German products, however the Association of the German Confectionary Agency (BDSI) said that the amounts of MOAH found could “be consumed without concern.”
A Ferrero spokesperson issued a statement to the Mail Online. It said:
“The discussion about mineral oil components (MOSH/MOAH) in foods is not new and affects a large variety of foods from the most different categories.
“Foodwatch Germany has recently tested several confectionery products and detected traces of mineral oil components. However, traces of mineral oil exist nearly everywhere in the environment and they can be transferred to food in many different ways.
“Main migration sources are, for example, mineral oil components from printing inks that are introduced into the packaging recycling cycle and, through transport containing recycled fibre, migrate to raw materials and foods…
“At Ferrero, together with all our supply chain partners, we are working on technical solutions to minimise these omnipresent substances as much as possible and to avoid transfer and migration to food.”
