Chocolate Candy Bars Recalled Over Ingredient, Company Blames ‘Temporary Breakdown’ In Operations

If your stocking was filled with sweet treats last week, make sure there aren’t any recalled chocolate bars mixed in with the rest of your Christmas candy haul.

Pennsylvania-based Gardner Candies is recalling Cappuccino Meltaway Bars produced during a specific period of time when nuts, which could post a life-threatening allergic reaction in some consumers, might have been added to the product without being disclosed on the packaging.

As Fox Business reported:

The Cappuccino Meltaway Bars subject to the recall have the lot number #082725 and expiration date 08/27/25.

Gardners Candies said the recalled products were part of Meltaway Treat Boxes containing a variety of flavors with the lot number 101625 or 112525.

People allergic to or severely sensitive to tree nuts “run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction” if they eat the recalled Cappuccino Meltaway Bars, the notice said.

Tree nut allergies are “among the most common food allergies in both children and adults,” according to the organization Food Allergy Research and Education.

This report is just the latest in a long line of recent food recalls:

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(Also, yet another food recall.) pic.twitter.com/cQtW6E2U44

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I’m actually more concerned with the massive and all too common MAJOR recalls within our food industry— Costco’s organic eggs, meat, produce, on and on…. What is going on with this and is ANYONE looking into this? Plants are not being maintained properly and/or the food…

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2024 was an unusually tough year for food safety with numerous high profile outbreaks & recalls.

As we begin a new year, the big food safety stories of 2025 have yet to be written.

Let’s work together to keep it that way.

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Newsweek also provided coverage of the candy bar recall:

In the Cappuccino Meltaway bars alert, the FDA says the recall was initiated after it was discovered that the packaging of the bars did not indicate tree nuts were present in the product.