The Food and Drug Administration has elevated three chocolates made by a Bay Area manufacturer to the highest-level recall classification.
Cal Yee Farms of Fairfield makes dark chocolate almonds, dark chocolate apricots and dark chocolate walnuts that now have the Class 1 designation because of potential or undeclared allergens, according to a Jan. 29 FDA enforcement report. The agency warned that people with allergies who consume the products could face serious adverse health consequences or death because the chocolates contain milk that was undeclared.
The original Dec. 12 recall included the aforementioned three products in addition to several others that may have contained undeclared milk, soy, wheat, sesame or almonds. Those products are dark chocolate raisins, yogurt-coated almonds, tropical trail mix, butter toffee almonds (sold under Cal Yee’s or Boa Vista Orchards brands), mango with chili, Cajun sesame hot sticks, New Orleans hot mix, and two fruit baskets, No. 2909 and No. 2921.
People who consume these products and have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk, soy, wheat, sesame or almonds are at risk of “serious or life-threatening” reactions, the FDA report said. The products were distributed in nine states: California, Arizona, Virginia, New Mexico, Texas, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, through the Cal Yee Farms retail store at 5158 Clayton Road in Fairfield and its website.
Cal Yee Farms is a family-owned business that has operated in the Suisun Valley for more than 60 years. The company is known for both fresh and dried fruits, nuts, raisins, seeds and other products. Cal Yee Farms released a statement in response to the original recall, saying that the voluntary recall was initiated after an FDA inspection of the facility.
SFGATE reached out to Cal Yee Farms but did not hear back in time for publication.
