Chocolate-lovers in China won’t like this news: Belgium’s Ferroro Rocher, Germany’s Ritter Sport and Taiwan’s CorNiche chocolate have all been named by China’s quality watchdog for having problems.

According to a report by Guangzhou Daily, imported chocolate from the three foreign brands are among the food products that failed a quality check conducted by the National entry & Exit Inspection and Quarantine Commission in August, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the country’s quality watchdog.

The watchdog said Ferrero’s Schokobons used excessive food additives, and Ritter Sport also used additives that exceeded allowed amounts. CorNiche’s chocolate was found to have mislabeling issues, the report said.

The quality watchdog said 261 food products failed the test, most of which were bakery items, sugar and drinks. Here’s a partial list:

• Ferrero Rocher Schokobons from Belgium, banned for having excess amounts of food additives
• Lipo cream egg cookies from Vietnam, banned for excess amounts of aluminum
• Pringles cheese potato chips, banned for containing excess food coloring of lemon yellow, and sunset yellow
• Meixin Jintui Wuren Moon cakes from Hong Kong, banned for excess amounts of bacteria
• Weiquan special soy sauce from Taiwan
• Lorado milk powder from Germany
• Three Ritter Sport chocolates from Germany, banned for its high moisture content
• Corniche Xianglian milk chocolates from Taiwan

Most of the problems are related to food additives, micro bacteria infection and substandard materials.

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