The Osem food company has announced that it is recalling tens of thousands of bags of Bamba, Bissli, and Dubonim snacks from store shelves across Eretz Yisroel. According to multiple media reports, the snacks contain a prize necklace which was discovered to contain 3.5 times the permissible amount of lead in them.
Customers who have already purchased the snacks and saved the necklaces are urged to throw the prizes out.
The bags are labeled (in Hebrew) as containing a “toy necklace. Not intended for children under six.”
“I don’t think a recall is warranted, but I’m doing it because I was instructed to,” Osem CEO Aviezer Kaplan told Haaretz. “All the experts we checked with say there is no danger to public health.”
The recall was ordered by the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry.
(Source: Haaretz / Jpost)
I want to know if those necklaces were imported from China.
Many American companies when doing a recall will say that they are doing it even though they are not required out of an abundance of caution. Some of the recent toy recalls by Mattel are an example. This makes me very confident of Osem products.
#2: Mr. Kaplan says he’s recalling the items because “I was instructed to.” He’s the Osem CEO. If he was instructed to (i.e., forced to), it was by outside parties, i.e., the Government.
That makes me leery of Osem products, not confident.
I thought my sarcasm was obvious.
Osem exports bamba and bisli to different countries as well. Did any of those recalled snacks make it to chutz l’aretz as well?
In the US, all recalls are ‘voluntary’. The companies issue the recall before the Gov’t does. No company does it because they believe its the right thing to do, unless they are forced.
I haven’t seen any in the UK yet so it must be pretty new or not intended for export.