Gardner’s Candies has it. Issued a nationwide recall On one of his chocolate bars, because of the tree nut hazard Allergy.
gave Food and Drug AdministrationAnnounced Friday (Dec. 27) that the company was issuing a recall on its 1.25-ounce packages of Cappuccino Meltaway Bars. The recall was issued because the candy may contain undeclared amounts of tree nuts, which could cause a “severe or life-threatening allergic reaction” to consumers with allergies or to tree nuts. Has severe sensitivity.
According to the FDA, the recalled candies went on sale on September 1, 2024, in retail stores nationwide and through mail orders placed on the Gardener’s Candies website.
The recall was also initiated after it was discovered that products containing tree nuts were distributed in packaging that did not include the presence of tree nuts.
An investigation revealed the packaging problem was “caused by a temporary malfunction in the company’s production and packaging processes.” Production of these chocolate bars has been halted “until the company is confident the problem has been fixed.”
The recalled Cappuccino Meltaway Bars were in a white package, marked with the number 082725. Their expiry date is also 27 August 2025.
This product can also be found in Gardeners Meltaway Treat boxes marked with one of these numbers: 101625 or 112525.
Customers who purchased packages of Cappuccino Meltaway Bars or Meltaway Treat Boxes are asked to call the Gardners Candies corporate office “for a replacement.”
The news comes just two days after Portland-based pet food company Northwest Naturals issued a North American recall. On December 24, the company announced a recall of its 2-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after a domestic cat. died in Oregon and subsequent testing revealed that the product contained H5N1 bird flu..
There is an unexplained increase in food returns in 2024. Last week, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a high-risk recall for approximately 7,485 pounds of raw Italian. A pork sausage product manufactured by Baltimore-based Impero Foods & Meats Inc.
FSIS designated the recall as Class I, describing it as a “health risk situation where there is a reasonable possibility that consumption of the product will cause serious, harmful health consequences or death.”
Also this month, Frito-Lay recalled a “limited number” of Lay’s Classic Potato Chips because they may contain “undeclared milk.” which Frito-Lay learned “after being alerted by a consumer contact.” This poses a risk of “severe or life-threatening allergic reactions” to consumers with “allergies or severe sensitivities to milk”.