32 Products Recalled by Major Candy Company Nationwide, with Special Attention in 17 States
Updated: May 20, 2024
They go by any of 10 different brand names, which you may recognize if you shop at retailers such as Walmart, Target, Dollar General, or HyVee.
It’s no accident that often near the entry and the exit of a supercenter department store, there’s a wide display of sweets that are usually calling out to you from clear plastic containers. Those rice crispy treats with sprinkles and the sugar cookies with colored icing so sweet it makes your cheeks sting are meant to catch you in those weak, fast-moving moments as you’re coming or going. In many cases they aren’t made in-house at Walmart, Target or at your grocery store—instead they’re shipped in by a business that partners with these stores at the corporate level and produces these goodies in mass quantities to sell in multiple retail locations.
One of those suppliers is the Sioux City, Iowa-based Palmer Candy, a family-owned confectionary and private label candy manufacturer originally founded in 1878. Among their products, Palmer’s website lists chocolates, homestyle candies, coated pretzels, brittle, snack mixes, specialty barks, toffees, and more, coming in “tubs, trays and canisters,” they say, plus other packaging that customers around the country would be likely to recognize.
In early May 2024, Palmer’s recalled approximately 30 products for contamination concerns. This weekend on May 18, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that the recall had been extended to include two more products and to provide more details for the products recalled earlier in the month. (The full list of recalled products runs below.)
The FDA’s recall announcement reads: “The recalled confectionary items were distributed nationwide in Walmart, HyVee, Target, Dollar General, and to distributors in Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.”
The sources state that no illnesses had been reported at the time of the recall alert, but that “Palmer Candy was notified by its liquid coating supplier that there was a potential for contamination with Salmonella from an ingredient that was potentially contaminated from one of their suppliers.” On its site, Palmer touts its food safety and quality systems, “including allergen control practices, master sanitation schedules, supplier audits, product and raw material traceability, label compliance verification,” and more.
The company urges customers to return the items to the place of purchase for a full refund or contact the company at 1-800-831-0828.
The recalled products come in a variety of packages, “like bags, pouches and tubs,” the recall announcement states. The company adds that the recalled Palmer products may be branded under any of these names: Freshness Guaranteed, Palmer, Sweet Smiles, Snackin’ With The Crew, Casey’s, Sconza Chocolates, Favorite Day Bakery, Sunny Select, Urge!, Kwik Trip Inc.
Product details are as follows, in the order of product name or description, size details, and best-by dates:
- CARAMEL SWIRL PRETZELS 4oz 12/18/24-12/28/24
- CARAMEL SWIRL PRETZELS 6oz 12/19/24, 12/20/24 and 1/19/25
- CLASSIC YOGURT PRETZELS 28# 12/11/24 – 1/8/25
- COOKIES & CREAM YUMMY CHOW 14# 12/6/24 – 1/23/25
- ENROBED PRETZEL RODS 8oz 1/22/2025
- FAVORITE DAY BAKERY WHITE FUDGE MINI COOKIES 7oz 4/4/25, 4/5/25, 4/15/25 – 4/18/25
- FROSTED MUNCHY MEDLEY BOWL 15oz 1/3/2025
- FROSTED PATRIOT FROSTED PRETZELS 28# 1/2/25, 1/3/25
- FROSTED PRETZELS 6oz 1/23/2025
- MUNCHY MEDLEY 15# 12/14/24, 1/3/25
- MUNCHY MEDLEY 4oz 12/25/24 – 12/28/24 and 1/19/25
- MUNCHY MEDLEY TO GO 4oz 12/25/24 – 1/19/25
- MUNCHY MEDLEY 6oz 12/20/24, 4/25/25
- PATRIOTIC MUNCHY MEDLEY BOWL 15oz 1/19/2025
- PATRIOTIC PRETZELS 14oz 1/25/25, 1/26/25
- PATRIOTIC PRETZELS 6oz 1/19/2025
- PATRIOTIC RED, WHITE & BLUE PRETZEL TWISTS 14oz 12/13/24 – 1/15/25
- PATRIOTIC SNACK MIX 13oz 1/19/25 – 2/1/25
- PATRIOTIC WHITE FUDGE COOKIES 13.5oz 4/22/2025
- PATRIOTIC WHITE FUDGE COOKIES 7oz 4/23/25, 4/24/25
- PEANUT BUTTER SNACK MIX 12oz 11/13/24 – 12/22/24
- PEANUT BUTTER SNACK MIX TO GO 4.5oz 1/18/2025
- SNACKIN’ WITH THE CREW! MIZZOU MUNCHY MEDLEY 7oz 12/18/24, 12/19/24
- SNACKIN’ WITH THE CREW! TIGER TREATS 7oz 12/18/24, 12/19/24
- STAR SNACKS CHOW DOWN 25# 12/6/24, 12/7/24
- STRAWBERRY YOGURT COATED PRETZELS 10oz 1/5/25, 1/23/25
- SWEET SMILES YOGURT COVERED PRETZELS 3.25oz 12/18/24 – 1/4/25
- VANILLA YOGURT COVERED PRETZELS 10oz 12/18/24, 1/5/25, 1/22/25
- YOGURT PRETZEL 14# 12/14/24 – 12/21/24
- ZEBRA FUDGE COOKIES 7oz 3/20/25 – 4/30/25
- DRIZZLED CARAMEL CORN 5oz 1/22/2025
- DRIZZLED CARAMEL CORN SNACK MIX BOWL 12oz 1/22/2025
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Originally Published: May 20, 2024
