Kinder Recall: Are Kinder Eggs recalled in the US? Are Kinder Eggs safe to eat?

Kinder Surprise, also known as Kinder Egg or Kinder Surprise Egg, is a milk chocolate consisting of a chocolate egg surrounding a yellow plastic capsule with a small toy inside.

To describe it into detail, Kinder Eggs is a milk chocolate egg lined with a layer of sweet milk-flavored cream.

Inside each egg is a plastic capsule that contains a small surprise toy, which sometimes requires assembly.

The capsule case is yellow, reportedly to resemble an egg’s yolk.

The chocolates have foil packaging with warning labels advising parents to avoid giving the eggs to children under three years old and encouraging supervision during consumption.

Are Kinder Eggs recalled in the US?

Kinder Eggs have been recalled in the US and this recall includes two products distributed in the U.S.: its Kinder Happy Moments Chocolate Assortment and Kinder Mix Chocolate Treats basket, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on April 12, 2022.

Are Kinder Eggs safe to eat?

Kinder Eggs are generally safe to eat but in Easter 2022, the Kinder chocolate products were linked to a salmonella outbreak.

A “rapid outbreak assessment” released by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said it had matched the same salmonella strain currently infecting people to samples taken from a factory in Belgium in December 2021.

Agencies including the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have warned that Kinder Surprise, Mini Eggs, Surprise 100g and Schoko-Bons should not be eaten.

As of 15 April, 2022, there have been 70 cases linked to this outbreak in the UK, with the majority of the cases in children under five.