On October 3rd The Food Standards Agency issued a statement advising retailers to remove all “White Rabbit” sweets from their shelves. The Chinese-made toffees recently tested positive for more than six times the legal limit of melamine. The chemical was the source of the recent milk contamination scare in China, that killed four infants and injured 52,000.
UCLU belatedly pulled the product on October 13th, but staff at the Bloomsbury Café were not told why. This lack of information meant that although the sweets were no longer on the shelves they could still be purchased on request, inadvertently putting student’s health at risk.