Spring & Mulberry expanded its salmonella recall on Friday to include all 12 of its chocolate bar lines after federal regulators said a date ingredient used in the candies was the most likely source of possible contamination.
The North Carolina-based company said the latest expansion adds Blood Orange, Coffee, Pure Dark and Sea Salt to a list that already included Mint Leaf, Earl Grey, Lavender Rose, Mango Chili, Mixed Berry, Mulberry Fennel, Pecan Date and Pure Dark Minis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the investigation identified a single lot of date ingredient used in the production of the company’s chocolate as the most likely source of contamination, prompting Spring & Mulberry to pull every finished product made with that lot.
All of the products in the expanded recall tested negative for Salmonella, the FDA said, and no illnesses tied to the chocolate bars have been reported. Even so, the recall now covers the company’s entire lineup, a sharp widening from the first two rounds that began with eight products and then grew again in January 2026.
That second widening matters because the bars were sold online and through select retail partners nationwide since August 2025, putting the products into homes across the country before the issue was traced to the ingredient lot. Spring & Mulberry sweetens its chocolate bars exclusively with dates, which makes the recalled ingredient central to every bar in the brand’s current production.
The tension here is simple: the company is recalling every finished product tied to the lot even though the bars themselves have not tested positive and no one has gotten sick. That leaves shoppers with one clear instruction from regulators — if the chocolate bar is part of the expanded recall list, it should not be eaten.
With the recall now covering all 12 product lines, the unanswered issue is not whether the company has gone far enough; regulators have already answered that by widening it again. The question now is how much product remains in circulation from a brand that sold nationwide for months before the contamination source was pinned to a single date ingredient lot.
