On Dec. 12, 2024, Cal Yee Farm, a California-based company, announced a recall on a variety of products, including dark chocolate walnuts, apricots and yogurt-coated almonds, after the FDA discovered that they weren’t labeled properly.

The FDA defines a Class 1 recall as “a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death." The affected products that fall into this new classification include Cal Yee Farms dark chocolate almonds,

A chocolate recall was recently upgraded to warn consumers of a potential to “cause serious adverse health consequences of death.”

The FDA has updated the December recall of some of Cal Yee Farms' products to the highest risk level classification for three of its chocolate products, warning that exposure or consumption could cause death.

Nine states have been identified as being affected by the chocolate recall, but the products were available online so others could have the products as well. Consumers affected bought products from the retail store located at 5158 Clayton Road, Suisun Valley, CA 94534, and online through calyeefarm.com.

On. Jan. 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) elevated a recall of some Cal Yee Farm chocolate products to its most serious level, Class I, for some products — Dark Chocolate Almonds, Dark Chocolate Apricots and Dark Chocolate Walnuts — that contain milk not listed in the ingredients, according to the New York Post.

The agency warned that the products, made by Cal Yee Farm, could have potentially serious or even deadly consequences because the packages were mislabeled. No illnesses have been reported.