Chocolate Recalls for January 24, 2021

Pay attention to these recalls to protect your chocolate loving self, family, and friends! These recalls go beyond the normal mislabeling and allergens this time.

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Lake Champlain Chocolates Recall

Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC) is issuing a public alert and a voluntary recall on select LCC milk chocolate products from a determined best-by date range for potential foreign objects. LCC is issuing this recall after a consumer reported finding brittle plastic pieces in a finished product. After initial investigations and out of an abundance of caution, LCC is voluntarily recalling all potential affected product currently on the market from July 2020 through January 2021. To date, no consumers have reported adverse health effects due to this contamination.

Affected products include:

Hazelnut Five Star Bar

Fruit & Nut Five Star Bar

Almond Five Star Bar

Granola Five Star Bar

Organic Milk Chocolate Bar with Sea Salt & Almonds

Milk Chocolate Almond Bark

Chocolates of Vermont Green Mountain

These products were distributed through retailers and distributors across all fifty states and in the company’s three Vermont retail stores.

LCC is asking customers to discontinue use and immediately dispose of any products listed above. Customers can find the Best By Date near the UPC code on the package. For any additional questions or concerns please email  info@lakechamplainchocolates.com.

Lake Champlain Chocolates is committed to quality products and consumer safety and is taking aggressive corrective action to prevent the need for any future recalls of its products.  It emphasizes that no other LCC products or batch codes were affected.

Lake Champlain Chocolates apologizes for any inconvenience to its consumers and customers.

To get the full list of products, use the link for this recall.

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Hiland Dairy Chocolate Milk Recall

Hiland Dairy is announcing a recall of the one-half pint (236 mL) 1% low fat chocolate milk that was produced at its Norman, Oklahoma facility only. Some of the products may contain food-grade sanitizers, which could cause illness if consumed.

The affected products were sold and distributed to institutional customers in the following areas:

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Metro Area

Western Oklahoma

Dallas, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

Tyler, Texas

The product information is detailed below:

One-Half Pint Hiland Dairy 1% Low Fat Chocolate Milk

UPC: 72060-00156-3

Sell by Date: January 27, 2021

Plant Code: 4025

1% Lowfat Chocolate Milk Half Pint

Affected Code Date: 1/27/21 (See Image Below)

ONLY Products with plant code #4025 are included.

Hiland Dairy initially learned of a potential issue and then confirmed after internal quality-control testing at the Norman, Oklahoma facility. The company promptly contacted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate the product recall.

To ensure 100% containment, Hiland Dairy is recalling all of the product with 1/27 code, although there were only eight cases affected. There are 50 units of one-half pints in one case and 4,800 cases were distributed with the above codes for a total of 240,000 units of one-half pint Hiland 1% Low Fat Chocolate Milk.

Other Hiland Dairy products are not part of this recall.

Hiland Dairy is working in partnership with the FDA to fully investigate the matter and comply with all necessary recall procedures.

Consumers with questions may contact Hiland Dairy seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST via email at https://www.hilanddairy.com/contact-usExternal Link Disclaimer.

Members of the media may contact Hiland’s Media Relations seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST at 1-402-740-2254 or via email at kathyb@envoyinc.com. https://www.hilanddairy.com/company/media-center.