Large Ferrero Rocher Milk Chocolate & Hazlenut Easter Egg Luxury Gift 275g (2)

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The Ferrero Rocher® Easter Gift Box features fine Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolates and is available in 5, 12, 16, and 24 pieces. The Ferrero Collection® Easter Gift Box is a 12-piece assortment of three premium confections: fine Ferrero Rocher® hazelnut chocolate, Raffaello®, and Rondnoir. The Ferrero chocolate and confectionery company recently announced a recall of some of its Kinder products due to an outbreak of salmonella. The new recall as well as old internet rumors appeared to have combined forces to fuel a viral Facebook post that's being copied and pasted as copypasta. These posts pushed misleading rumors that said pictures showed maggots and worms in both Kinder chocolate eggs and a product described in the reposts as "Ferrero Rocher Hazelnut Easter Eggs."

The CRUNCH® Bunny, featuring creamy milk chocolate with crisped rice, makes a great Easter basket centerpiece. Kinder® Chocolate Figures add a playful touch to any Easter basket with this seasonal bag of individually wrapped smooth Kinder® chocolate pieces in springtime wrappers. The report said “the processing step involving buttermilk was identified as the possible contamination point”, and hygiene measures were implemented. Finally, taking into account the aforementioned information provided by a Ferrero company spokesperson, we concluded that the viral reposts on Facebook were misleading, to say the least. The key components of this recall, other than the names of the products affected and the fact that these products weren't recalled in the U.S., appeared to be the fact that only one plant was impacted and that it only "accounts for around 7% of total volumes of Kinder products manufactured globally on a yearly basis." These facts were absent from the misleading Facebook reposts.

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First, the reposts about Ferrero's Kinder chocolate recall and Ferrero Collection Hazelnut Crispy Eggs mentioned maggots, which led to searches on Google for worms as well. However, as previously mentioned, neither of the two company recall notices said anything about maggots or worms. They only mentioned salmonella. This part of the rumor may have stemmed from users seeing old news articles about misleading and unfounded videos that claimed to show maggots and worms in Ferrero Rocher chocolates. A company spokesperson told us: "In the United States, only two products are being recalled: Kinder Happy Moments Chocolate Assortment, distributed only at BJ’s Wholesale Club stores and select Costco locations in the Bay Area of California and Northern Nevada; and Kinder Mix Chocolate Treats Confections Assortment Basket distributed in 14 Big Y Supermarket locations, where this product has already been removed from store shelves. We continue to cooperate with the FDA."

The Ferrero Rocher® Bunny Gift Box features 13 fine Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolates and is the perfect centerpiece to display while hosting Easter guests. On April 7, Ferrero issued a recall in the U.S. for two specific product assortments due to concerns over salmonella. Also absent from the reposts was a company announcement from Ferrero that detailed special new Easter products for the U.S. that were unaffected by any recall. That announcement was made on the same day as one of the recall notices, perhaps showing just how isolated much of the recall was outside of the U.S. Inconsistencies The Mini Nutella® Easter Jar, an adorable 1.05 oz. mini glass Nutella Jar available with light green and yellow lids, is sure to brighten any Easter basket. The user also reported receiving what appeared to be harassing messages about family members on unrelated posts, leading to those being deleted as well.

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Grand Ferrero Rocher® is an indulgent offering that is a special gift to celebrate the moment. Available in milk chocolate or dark chocolate, each Grand Ferrero Rocher features a chocolate shell with hazelnut pieces. It added that he factory “distributed the implicated chocolate products across Europe and globally after negative Salmonella testing”.