士力架吃出塑料 瑪氏全球大規模召回巧克力

US chocolate giant Mars Tuesday ordered a massive international recall of Mars and Snickers bars made at its Dutch factory after a customer in Germany found a piece of red plastic in his Snickers bar last month.

一位德國顧客上月在士力架巧克力棒中發現了一片紅色塑料之後，美國巧克力巨頭瑪氏公司上週二下令在全球範圍內大規模召回其荷蘭工廠出產的巧克力產品。

The recall of the chocoholic snacks also affects Milky Way minis and some boxes of Celebrations, and hit most European countries. But it also extended as far as Vietnam and Sri Lanka in Asia.

這次巧克力零食的召回也影響到了包括Milky Way minis和Celebrations在內的產品，且在歐洲國家影響最大。但是遠在亞洲的越南和斯里蘭卡也在此次召回之列。

"As far as we know there are 55 countries involved," Eline Bijveld, Mars corporate affairs coordinator for the Netherlands told AFP, refusing to divulge the whole list.

“據我們所知，所涉及的國家一共有55個，”瑪氏荷蘭公司企業事務協調人員艾琳·比維爾德在接受法新社採訪時表示。但是她拒絕透露具體名單。

The recall "only involves the products that are made in the Netherlands", she said, adding the products were mainly sold in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. Chocolate lovers in the United States need not worry as the recall does not extend to the company's home base.

比維爾德還表示，召回“僅針對在荷蘭生產的產品”，而這些產品主要是在荷蘭和歐洲各國進行銷售。美國的巧克力愛好者不必擔心，因爲此次召回並沒有影響到位於美國的公司總部基地。

Bijveld could not give the exact number of chocolate bars produced daily at the factory, but said about four million items were being recalled in The Netherlands alone.

比維爾德沒有給出該工廠每天生產的巧克力棒的具體數字，但是據說僅在荷蘭就有400萬條已被召回。

"We are currently investigating exactly what's happened, but we cannot be sure that this red piece of plastic isn't in any other of our products from the same production line," Bijveld said.

比維爾德表示：“我們目前正在調查具體情況，但無法確定紅色塑料碎片是不是也存在於同一生產流水線上的其他產品。”

The recalled products are with a best-before date of between June 19, 2016, and Jan 8, 2017.

據悉，本次召回產品的保質期是在2016年6月19日到2017年1月8日之間。