"We will not take any risk and will bear all the costs as is expected of us," said the company as all Elite, Energy, gum and toffee products are recalled.
Health authorities are investigating the origin of 169 reported cases of inflammation of the liver in children in 12 countries.
Europe is facing a wave of Hepatitis in children, and Israel is preparing for the worst. There's only one problem: No one knows where it's coming from.
Viruses mutate all the time but only some mutations affect their ability to spread or evade prior immunity from vaccination or infection, or the severity of disease they cause.
"Even if there is one country in the world with polio, all the other countries are in big trouble" a senior World Health Organization official said.
The Sputnik V shot, widely used in Russia and approved in more than 60 countries, is also being reviewed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Communities close to poorly-managed landfills can also be affected through contaminated air from burning waste, poor water quality or disease-carrying pests, it added.
A new World Health Organization report listed Israel's yearly average number of living kidney donors as just over 30 people per million.
But on one of the key questions of whether a new Omicron-specific vaccine was needed now, the UN agency did not have an immediate answer.
Omicron is spreading rapidly in countries with high levels of population immunity, but it is unclear if this is due to the virus' ability to evade immunity, its inherent increased transmissibility.
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