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Kinder Surprise Labeled Unsafe In Germany

Agence France Presse

BERLIN — Despite being a massive hit with children and adults alike, German lawmakers want to ban Kinder surprise eggs on safety grounds, press reports said on Thursday.

Millions of the chocolate eggs with a toy inside are sold every year in Europe’s biggest economy, but according to a parliamentary health commission it is dangerous to combine food and toys in one product, the Bild daily said.

“Children cannot tell the difference between a toy and food,” the Welt newspaper cited Miriam Gruss from the commission as saying.

A spokeswoman for Ferrero, the Italian confectionery firm that has made the eggs since 1974, said a ban would be unjustified as the figures or toys are enclosed in a yellow plastic capsule.

“There is absolutely no evidence that there is an increased danger from the combination of food and toys,” Ferrero spokeswoman Elise Glaab told Die Welt.

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