Spring & Mulberry expands recall of chocolate bars over salmonella risk

Wake County shoppers who bought Spring & Mulberry chocolate bars should check the package and flow wrap now. The voluntary recall has expanded to 12 flavors, and the company is telling consumers not to eat any affected bars, which were sold online and through select retail partners nationwide.

Spring & Mulberry said the recall now covers all finished products made with a single implicated lot of date ingredient, after investigators identified that lot as the most likely source of contamination. The recalled bars have been on sale since August 2025, and an earlier recall notice had already covered products sold nationwide since September 15, 2025. The company says all products in the expanded recall tested negative for Salmonella, and no confirmed illnesses have been reported in connection with the bars to date.

The action began in January 2026, when routine third-party testing by the company’s contract manufacturer found Salmonella in a finished product. Spring & Mulberry first recalled its Mint Leaf flavor, then widened the recall a few days later to include additional flavors. On January 14, the company updated that recall, and the FDA published the notice on January 15. The latest expansion, announced May 8, follows a root-cause investigation carried out with the company’s manufacturing partners, food safety experts and the FDA.

Consumers should look for the Spring & Mulberry brand name, the flavor name, the lot or batch code and the box color on the back of the packaging and on the inner flow wrap. Anyone who finds an affected bar should not eat it. Spring & Mulberry is instructing consumers to photograph the batch code, email it to recalls@springandmulberry.com, and then dispose of the product to receive a refund.

The FDA warns that Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy people can also get sick, with symptoms that include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. The expansion closes the loop on a recall that began with one flavor, but now reaches across the company’s date-sweetened chocolate line as investigators traced the problem back to a single ingredient lot.