Haribo in the sights for traces of cannabis in some parcels of candies. These are the Happy Cola F! Zz and the alarm arrives from the Netherlands after some consumers, including children, who have warned “dizziness and sense of malaise“.
According to the Dutch law enforcement officers, to give the alarm was, in particular, a couple of the Twenty region, who showed up in a police station with a package in Haribo, indicating that the children had felt bad after consuming them. Hence the withdrawal from the Dutch market of the candies of his brand “Happy Cola Fizz“.
The NVWA spokesman, Saida Ahyad, specified that alone Three of the bags of Happy Cola F! zz examined were contaminatedbut that by precaution a generalized retreat of the brand was decided by the national market.
In addition, Haribo said he is working actively with the authorities to find out how cannabis has made his way into the company’s products.
The safety of our consumers is our maximum priority and Haribo takes this accident very seriously, he told the AFP news agency. This is a living problem and we are working closely with the Dutch authorities to support their investigations and establish the facts on contamination.
