Cadbury's British salmonella scare

Chocolate firm Cadbury is facing legal action for allegedly covering up the discovery of a rare strain of salmonella in its chocolate bars for six months. Shops across Britain began clearing more than a million Cadbury chocolate bars off their shelves as a precaution after a nationwide alert.

Health experts have not ruled out a link between the contamination at a Cadbury factory in Herefordshire and a sudden rise in illnesses caused by the rare bacteria, salmonella montevideo.

Cadbury executives will be asked to explain why they failed to tell the Food Standards Agency and environmental health officials about the discovery in January.