Chocolate cleared from Australian stores in contamination scare

Efforts to recall thousands of Mars and Snickers bars from shelves in Australia have been stepped up in the wake of a contamination scare, the manufacturer said today.

MasterFoods, the company that makes Snickers and Mars bars, ordered a recall of tens of thousands of the chocolate bars on Friday after receiving a letter claiming that seven contaminated bars had been placed on shelves in the area surrounding Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state.