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UK/London: Cocco Candy, a Turkey establishment, and KGR Distribution Corp., a Passaic, New Jersey establishment, recall certain batch/lots of Cocco Candy branded Rolling Candy Confectionery products from the British marketplace due to suspected component detachment and consequential risks of choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction/perforation and/or sepsis, all serious health and safety hazards requiring immediate medical intervention to minimize pain and suffering as well as prevent life-altering injury or death. One (1) death is known to have occurred in the United States from a similar confectionery design.
FSA: https://rb.gy/2z79pu
Direct link: https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-prin-40-2023
Additional information:
The UK Food Standards Agency (“FSA”) reports the following Confectionery products are subject to recall:
Filed under: Choking or asphyxiation hazard, Food & Drink, Foreign Materials - Metal, glass, plastic, stone, bone or rubber fragments, Ingestion hazard, Laceration hazard, UK FSA | Tagged: Bowel Obstruction hazards, Candy, Candy Dynamics Inc., choking hazard, Cocco Candy, confectionery, Food Standards Agency, FSA Ref: FSA-PRIN-40-2023, ingestion hazard, Laceration hazard, Recalls Direct RIN: 17765-2023, sepsis hazard, UK FSA | Leave a comment »