For those of you with little ghosts and goblins in your lives.

Don't eat the chocolate coin candies!

The little chocolate coins are not safe for kids to eat this Halloween.
They are made in China and contain the Melamine that children’s deaths were related to recently.

With Halloween coming soon, pass this on to your family and friends.

Sherwood's Milk Chocolate Pirate's Gold Coins from China contain melamine.
It is true, Read the full story at the following link from Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/coins.asp

Thanks for the info and for backing it up with the Snopes!!!

Thanks!

Mike, hun, Snopes is soooooo not a reliable place for info about stuff like that...matter of fact, last year when I did a speech on Urban Legends, Snopes was the first place I looked...

My Dark Haired beauty...isn't it past your bedtime ?...dare I ask....lol...

Really, I've always heard that Snopes and FactFinder were the best places to find unbiased facts.

This sounds like a hoax

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no Winx, I'm afraid you have heard wrong luff. Snopes Wikipedia are the worst places to find information. Just go look at the first page on Snopes.com....It even says "Rumor Has It"

Wikipedia, ANYONE can get in there and edit the information without census, so you never know if what you see is the truth on that site. If I wanted to, I could find an article about....How to make a dress and put some totally bogus patterns up there...

Yeah, I heard that about Wikipedia. That's a shame.

But..with Snopes it does show the rumor at the top and tells what is true underneath the rumor.

Nah, Snopes is pretty good. If you follow the link, it backs up the rumor with links the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's consumer report. Snopes usually backs up what it writes. It says rumor has it on its front page because it's a site for substantiating or debunking internet rumors.

It does usually show the true origins of the story, but most of the time the stories are so out of proportion it's not even funny. Most urban legends like that one above are based on some fact, but have been so stretched it is hardly anything like the fact.

Do that! Report back what happens please.

Haha, sure XDD

Snopes is normally cited as being the BEST place to find out the facts behind hoaxes and such.

As far as Wikipedia goes, I totally agree. I've found highly questionable info there before.

Maybe more people need to just have Halloween Parties for the local kids and keep people in and do fun things. BUY the candy and/or make treats for them.