Haribo issues major recall after popular gummies found to be tainted with cannabis
This cola-flavored candy could have more fizz than you're expecting.
Haribo is investigating how one of its popular gummy products apparently became tainted with cannabis in the after several people reportedly fell ill in the Netherlands.
Haribo has issued a nationwide recall in the EU country as a result.
Haribo's Happy Cola F!ZZ gummies apparently became tainted with cannabis.
Haribo
Customers who were enjoying the Haribo Happy Cola F!ZZ gummies, including multiple members of a single family, said they felt 'dizziness' after eating the sweets, according to the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA).
'Samples were taken and cannabis was found in them,' the agency told Dutch outlet Hart van Nederland.
So far, only a single batch of candy in the Netherlands is suspected of contamination — not supplies in the US or elsewhere, the company said.
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There is a national action plan for children across all kinds of metrics: affordable early years care; educational inclusivity, particularly for Roma children; protective measures on mental health; access to housing – which is transparent and prioritised. The country has 'very strong humanitarian and civil organisations,' says Gregorčič, but Slovenians also take as given that it is everyone's job to make sure kids don't get siloed by social class. And then, seeing one of those organisations up close, one driver of the country's success surfaces constantly: they are never satisfied; one child in poverty is too many. The numbers speak for themselves – the amount of children at risk of deprivation in Slovenia is 10.3%, just under half the EU average of 24.4%, according to Eurostat. The UK is no longer included in these figures, but for comparison, a separate Unicef study found that the UK was third from bottom of the OECD in 2021, and that only Turkish and Colombian children were more likely to be living below the poverty line. Slovenia, in that study? Still first. I'm here to visit Zveza Anita Ogulin & ZPM (ZPM for short), a children's charity in the east of Ljubljana, in a set of low-rise municipal buildings on a tidy, grass-banked street whose name translates as Proletarian Road. Doris Rojo, its head of communications, is annoyed that it gets these buildings rent-free from the state, but has to pay rent on the larger site opposite, which houses a community centre and food bank. Rojo refers frequently to the 'socialism that is left from the past', to explain many features of a Slovenian childhood: the custom of cooked meals at school that lots of children don't pay for, for instance, or the idea that kids have a right to a holiday, by the sea or in the mountains, and no one would think of organising a group trip that didn't include a cross-section of social classes. 'This was considered part of life,' Rojo says. 'Everyone went on holiday, at least once a year. The state even owned apartments by the sea, available for workers on reduced terms.' Somehow, capitalism never attained the status of inevitability or modernity in Slovenian policy discourse – just a different way of doing things, that is only sometimes better. When they call a street after the proletariat, they don't mean that in a bad way. 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