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Karl Bissinger Llc
Recall · Class III2016-02-22Terminated

The chocolate used in the product contains vanillin (an artificial ingredient) but is labeled to contain vanilla.

Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Karl Bissinger Llc.

What the notice covered

Bissinger's Milk Chocolate Eggs packaged in 6.5 oz (UPC 846107009382) Item: #11108 or 1 lb. (UPC 846107003458) Item: # 111049 plastic bags. Bissinger's Handcrafted Chocolatier, St. Louis, MO.

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class III means

The FDA’s least serious class: use of the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences. Often a labelling or packaging fault.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reference number
F-1246-2016
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2016-02-22
Terminated
2017-02-01
Status on the record
Terminated
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

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How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.

https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:"F-1246-2016"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-1246-2016 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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