CFIA expands Hershey's advisory beyond Toronto to other Ont. cities
Last Updated: Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 11:14 PM ET
CBC News
Products made at the Hershey's chocolate factory in Smiths Falls, Ont., were recalled in 2006 over salmonella fears. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)Hershey's chocolates and candies recalled two years ago over salmonella fears and subsequently stolen from a recycling depot are being sold not just in Toronto but in other Ontario cities as well, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Sunday.
Last Thursday, the CFIA said at least 640 recalled chocolate bars had been recovered from five stores in the Toronto area. The agency updated its advisory Sunday to include a small number of stores in the Niagara Falls and Oshawa areas.
Agency spokesman Garfield Balsom said more of the products might be for sale in other convenience and variety stores.
The products — including Oh Henry!, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Glosettes — were recalled in November 2006 after Hershey's detected Salmonella bacteria in its plant in Smith Falls, Ont.
The following year, some of the products were stolen from a Toronto recycling depot that was contracted to collect and dispose of the questionable products.
No illnesses have been reported, the CFIA said.
The agency warns that foods tainted with salmonella may not look or smell spoiled, but the bacteria can cause symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. People with weak immune systems are particularly vulnerable to salmonella poisoning.
Hershey's spokesman Kirk Saville said the recalled candy is being sold to stores through illegal channels.
He stressed that Halloween candy was not affected by the recall.
The recalled candy has codes ranging from 6417 to 6455 on the package. Products listed in the 2006 recall include:
- Hershey's Chipits milk chocolate chips - 270 grams.
- Hershey's creamy milk chocolate with almonds - 43 grams.
- Hershey creamy milk chocolate - 45 grams.
- Oh Henry! - 62.5 grams; 62.5 grams/4 bars; 145 grams.
- Oh Henry! Bites - 130 grams.
- Oh Henry! peanut butter - 60 grams.
- Hershey Chipits semi-sweet chocolate chips - 350 grams; 2 kilograms.
- Hershey Chipits semi-sweet mint chocolate chips - 300 grams.
- Hershey semi-sweet chocolate chips - 300 grams.
- Hershey's Special Dark chocolate - 45 grams.
- Hershey's Special Dark chocolate with almonds - 43 grams.
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - 51 grams; 68 grams; 51 grams/4 bars.
- Lowney Cherry Blossom - 45 grams.
- Glosette peanuts - 45 grams.
- Glosette almond - 42 grams.
- Glosette raisin - 50 grams; 145 grams.
- Hershey's chocolate shell topping - 177 millilitres.
- Eat-More dark toffee peanut chew - 56 grams; 56 grams/4 bars.
- Lowney Bridge Mix - 52 grams; 340 grams.
- Hershey assorted 16 count - 728 grams.
- Hershey assorted 50 count - 2.5 kilograms.
- Hershey Chipits mini chocolate chips - 300 grams; 10 kilograms (bulk); 175 grams; 500 grams.
- Hershey Chipits chocolate chip bulk - 10 kilograms (bulk).
- Nut Roll - 5 kilograms (bulk).
- Hershey semi-sweet chocolate chips - 10 kilograms (bulk).
- Reese Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Cups - 51 grams.
- Oh Henry! Rocky Road bar - 60 grams.
- Pot of Gold all nut collection - 245 grams.
