The Meals and Drug Administration has upgraded its December recall of some chocolate- and yogurt-covered merchandise made by Cal Yee Farm to its highest degree of severity.
The company warned this week of probably severe, and even lethal, penalties from consuming the merchandise for many who have an allergy or sensitivity to almonds, milk, sesame, soy, wheat and the artificial dye FD&C No. 6.
Cal Yee Farm of Suisun Valley, Calif., started voluntarily recalling some of its products on Dec. 12 as a result of they had been mislabeled, and contained components that weren’t listed on their packages.
No sicknesses have been reported. The recall started after an F.D.A. inspection of Cal Yee Farm’s manufacturing plant.
The merchandise topic to the highest-level recall embody: sure packages of darkish chocolate almonds, darkish chocolate apricots, darkish chocolate raisins and darkish chocolate walnuts. Some packages of New Orleans sizzling combine, Cajun sesame sizzling sticks, tropical path combine and yogurt-coated almonds had been additionally affected.
Merchandise had been bought beneath the Cal Yee’s or Cal Yee Farm manufacturers.
Cal Yee Farm stated that the affected merchandise had been bought at two retail shops, in Suisun Valley, Calif., and Placerville, Calif.; and thru on-line and cellphone orders to Arizona, California, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
The corporate stated that clients with these allergic reactions and sensitivities who purchased the affected merchandise mustn’t eat them. It advisable throwing them away, or returning them to Cal Yee Farm for a full refund. It stated the labeling downside has since been mounted.
The F.D.A. has three classifications for remembers, and this week’s reclassification, or replace, is a typical a part of the method, in accordance with the company.
Class I, probably the most extreme discover that was assigned to Cal Yee, is “a state of affairs in which there’s an affordable chance that using or publicity to a violative product will trigger severe antagonistic well being penalties or demise,” the company stated.
The Meals Allergen Labeling and Shopper Safety Act of 2004 identifies milk as one in every of eight main meals allergens. The others are crustacean shellfish, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, tree nuts and wheat.
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