Urgent global recall for popular chocolate brand over choking hazard found in bars

An urgent nationwide callback for a fashionable cocoa marque has been issued, implicit fears its bars incorporate a imaginable choking hazard.  

Two flavors of Tony’s Chocolonely sold successful a dispersed of stores crossed the state including Whole Foods, Target, Safeway and CVS, person been recovered to incorporate tiny stones. 

The FDA warns that 'hard oregon crisp overseas objects successful nutrient whitethorn origin traumatic wounded including laceration and perforation of tissues of the mouth, tongue, throat, tummy and intestine arsenic good arsenic harm to the teeth and gums.'

To date, 12 consumers person filed complaints with the Dutch cocoa manufacturer, triggering the determination to callback the compromised product. 

The 2 products affected are the Dark Almond Sea Salt and the Everything Bars (containing beverage cocoa with caramel, pretzel, almond nougat and oversea salt), and some are successful 180g sizes. 

The urgent safety recall affects the bars with the specific batch codes: 163094, 162634, M162634, 4327, 4330, 4331, M4331.

Dark Almond Sea Salt bars with the champion earlier dates 28 February 2026 and 2 April 2026 should beryllium avoided.

While Everything bars should beryllium returned if the champion earlier day lies betwixt the 22 and 26 November of this year. 

A spokesperson for Tony’s Chocolonely said the tiny stones made their mode into the bars during 'third-party almond harvesting and the almond processing process'.   

All complaints truthful acold person occurred extracurricular of the US and Canada and nary injuries person been reported.

Meanwhile, the institution highlights that nary different Tony's products are affected. 

The company, which launched retired of Amsterdam successful 2005, presently manufacturers much than 8 flavors of chocolate, ranging from chromatic almond nugget to beverage cocoa caramel oversea salt.

Consumers who inactive person the compromised merchandise are urged not to devour it. 

In Canada, the Dark Almond Sea Salt bars tin beryllium identified utilizing the batch fig 162697, portion the Everything bars are marked with the codification 4332.

Those successful possession of the cocoa bars are advised to propulsion them distant oregon instrumentality it to the store wherever it was purchased for a replacement point oregon refund.

Customers tin besides interaction Tony's astatine (503)-388-5990.

The aforesaid callback has been issued successful the UK owed to the aforesaid occupation involving chromatic fragments.  

Responding to the matter, a institution spokesperson told DailyMail.com: 'We are highly atrocious to person to contented this recall, and for the inconvenience that this volition origin radical who purchased these products. 

'Whilst the probability of a merchandise being affected is low, we ever enactment the information and restitution of our consumers archetypal and that is wherefore we person made the determination to callback these products. 

'We apologize to consumers and our partners for the interaction this volition have.'