
FDA upgrades remember some Cal Yee chocolates at the highest risk level

The Food and Drug Administration improved its recall of some chocolate and yogurt-related products in December by Cal Yee Farm to the highest severity.
This week, the agency warned of potentially serious or even fatal consequences of eating the products for those who have an allergy or sensitivity to almonds, milk, sesame, soy, wheat and the synthetic dye FD & C No. 6.
The Cal Yee Farm from Suisun Valley, California, voluntarily began to remember some of his products on December 12th because they were wrong and contained ingredients that were not listed in their packages.
No diseases were reported. The recall began after an FDA inspection of Cal Yee Farm's production work.
The products that are exposed to the recall at the highest level include: certain packages with dark chocolate almonds, dark chocolate aprices, dark chocolate pinks and dark chocolate walnuts. Some packages from New Orleans Hot Mix, Cajun Sesam Hot Sticks, Tropical Trail Mix and Yoghurt-coated almonds were also affected.
Products were sold under the brands of Cal Yee or Cal Yee Farm.
Cal Yee Farm said that the products concerned were sold in two retail stores in Suisun Valley, California, and Placerville, California. And through online and telephone orders to Arizona, California, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
The company said that customers with these allergies and sensitives that the products concerned bought should not eat. It was recommended to throw them away or to return them to the Cal Yee Farm for full reimbursement. The labeling problem has been fixed since then.
The FDA has three classifications for recalls, and the reclassification or update this week is a standard component of the process, according to the agency.
Class I, the most serious announcement that Cal Yee has been assigned, is “a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use or exposure to a violent product causes a serious health consequences or deaths,” said the agency.
The food allergen and consumer protection law of 2004 identifies milk as one of eight large food allergens. The others are cancer height, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, tree nuts and wheat.