Anyone who has tried a milk chocolate
Ferrero Rocher will likely want to try another. Around holiday time,
the confections are popular additions to any party. But think twice
before you see a box of these golden-wrapped goodies for a curiously
low price at a discount store.
Experts say counterfeiting of items such
as chocolate is on the rise, and there is no greater proof than the
seizure of 33,000 boxes of counterfeit Ferrero Rocher’s by French
customs officers in late December 2008. The bust was the biggest seizure
of counterfeit ordinary food products France has seen, said Jerômé
Fournel, head of French customs.
Luxury chocolatiers have good reason
to be angry with counterfeiters banking on their good name—last year,
shipments of fake chocolates coming from China were found to contain
worms and moths. As always, buy wisely and from reputable retailers
to avoid the unappetizing consequences of counterfeits.
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