Muslim retail and consumer groups in Malaysia on Thursday called for a boycott of products made by Britain-based confectioner Cadbury and its parent Mondelez International Inc, after two chocolate varieties were found to have infringed Islamic rules by containing pork DNA.Cadbury Malaysia on Monday recalled the Dairy Milk chocolates after the finding by Malaysian authorities in a random test.Products in the Muslim majority Southeast Asian nation are regularly checked to ensure they are halal, or permissible according to Islamic law.Cadbury Malaysia only sells to the local market. Mondelez's Malaysia sales are a small fraction of the around 15 percent of its revenues that come from the Asia-Pacific region, but concerns over halal standards could jeopardise sales in bigger Muslim markets, such as Indonesia and the Middle East.
Mondelez International, Inc. (Mondelez International) is a snack manufacturing company. Shares of MDLZ fell by 0.08% or $-0.03/share to $37.40. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $28.22 and as high as $38.47. On average, 9057040 shares of MDLZ exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 7596948.
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