The Food and Drug Administration has improved its December reminder of certain products covered with chocolate and yogurt made by Cal Yee Farm at its highest level of gravity.
The agency warned this week of potentially serious, even fatal consequences, to eat products for those who have an allergy or sensitivity to almonds, milk, sesame, soy, wheat and synthetic color fd & c n ° 6 .
Cal Yee Farm of Sasun Valley, California, began to voluntarily recall some of its products on December 12 because they were poorly labeled and contained ingredients that were not listed on their packages.
No disease has been reported. The recall began after an Inspection of the FDA of the Cal Yee Farm manufacturing plant.
Products subjected to the highest level recall include: some packets of dark chocolate almonds, black chocolate apricots, dark chocolate raisins and dark chocolate nuts. Certain packages of the hot mixture of New Orleans, hot cajun sticks with sesame, mixture of tropical trails and almonds coated with yogurt have also been affected.
The products were sold under the Cal Yee’s or Cal Yee Farm brands.
Cal Yee Farm said that affected products were sold in two retail stores in Sasun Valley, California, and Placeville, California; And through online and telephone orders in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
The company said that customers with these allergies and sensitivities that have purchased affected products should not eat them. He recommended throwing them or returning them to Cal Yee Farm for a full refund. He said the labeling problem has since been solved.
The FDA has three classifications for reminders, and the reclassification or update of this week is part of the process, according to the agency.
Class I, the most serious opinion which has been awarded to Cal Yee, is “a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use or exposure to a violating product will result in serious unfavorable consequences in matters of health or death, ”said the agency.
Labeling food allergens and the 2004 law on consumer protection identifies milk as one of the eight main food allergens. The others are crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, trees and wheat.
