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Below information is the latest to all muslims or non-muslims, so think before you need to eat the chocolate try to read the ingredients....

Below Masterfood Company Chocolate Products (Mars) are no longer Halal. They started using Animal product rennet in it for products that have expiry date after 1st of October 2007.

Please check this article from BBC News:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653175.stm

Mars starts using animal products
Masterfoods' brands are household names
Some of the UK's best-selling chocolate bars, such as Mars and Twix, will no longer be suitable for vegetarians.

(and strict Hindus and Buddhists)
Also affecting brands such as Snickers and Maltesers, owner Masterfoods said it had started to use animal product rennet to make its chocolate products.
Masterfoods said the change was due to it switching the sourcing of its ingredients and the admission was a "principled decision" on its part.
The Vegetarian Society said the company's move was "incomprehensible".
'Extremely disappointed'
Masterfoods said it had started using rennet from 1 May and non-affected products had a "best before date" up to 1 October.
Masterfoods' decision to use non-vegetarian whey is a backward step

Vegetarian Society
Rennet, a chemical sourced from calves' stomachs, is used in the production of whey.
It will now also be found in Bounty, Minstrels and Milky Way products, and the ice cream versions of all Masterfoods' bars.
"If the customer is an extremely strict vegetarian, then we are sorry the products are no longer suitable, but a less strict vegetarian should enjoy our chocolate," said Paul Goalby, corporate affairs manager for Masterfoods.
The Vegetarian Society said it was "extremely disappointed".
"At a time when more and more consumers are concerned about the provenance of their food, Masterfoods' decision to use non-vegetarian whey is a backward step," it said in a statement.
"Mars products are very popular with young people and many will be shocked to discover that their manufacture now relies on the extraction of rennet from the stomach lining of young calves," it added.


· Bounty
· Celebrations
· Dove Chocolate
· Flyte
· Galaxy
· Kudos (North America)
· Lockets
· M-Azing (North America)
· Maltesers
· M&M's
· Mars Bar
· Mars Delight
· Milky Way
· Minstrels (UK only)
· Mars Planets (newly inroduced in UK)
· Skittles
· Snickers (The top-selling candy bar in the United States. Known in the UK as Marathon until 1990.)
· Starburst (Originally Opal Fruits in the UK.)
· 3 Musketeers (North America)
· Topic
· Twix
· Snicker's Marathon Energy Bar
· AquaDrops

YumMy_KinG

hey.. thx for sharing.. didnt noe tat much too lol.. eye open for mi

RED.ADEN

_l_ imma vegetarian here u ass.
wat do u mean by less vegetarian can enjoy ur fcuking chocolate WITH ANIMAL CONTENT?!
u looked so lowly on us.

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genzo2106

Though I am not a vegetarian, but have to agree with you that the choice of words used by the spokesman was very inappropriate and disrespectful to all the vegetarians out there. :disgust2: :disgust2:

deathcabforcutie

thx for sharing though

icetea

waaaa..everyone mus tk note of tis..

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icetea aka Ice Tea Bear Bear


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killtheblackkat

woah...very important piece of info.


btw


for those who are vegetarians and loves chocolate, you can go to those shops that sell bakery tools and ingredients shops like Phoon Huat. you can buy the conventure chocolates as those chocolates are suitable for muslims and vegetarians:mellow3:

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GreenSn0w

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