Food Safety Brief

Signal Explorer › FDA recall

Gearharts Fine Chocolates, Inc. recalls GEARHARTS FINE CHOCOLATES Net Wt. 4oz UPC 8 98111 00205 7; Net Wt. 8oz UPC 8 98111 00206;…

Ongoing FDA Recall Class II Physical

Read the agency's notice · machine-readable source record · Agency id: 99944

What the agency said

Product
GEARHARTS FINE CHOCOLATES Net Wt. 4oz UPC 8 98111 00205 7; Net Wt. 8oz UPC 8 98111 00206; Gearharts Fine Chocolates 243B Ridge McIntire Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Firm: Gearharts Fine Chocolates, Inc.
Reason, as written
Foreign Object - Broken glass was found in a piece of finished product.
Status, as written
Ongoing
Distribution, as written
Product was shipped to the following states: CA, CT, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OH, SC, TX, VA & WA.

How this record is classified

Each label says whether the agency stated it, coded it, or whether our rules inferred it from the agency's wording. Click a value to see every record that shares it.

Hazard type
Physical
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
Organism, allergen, or material
Glass
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules (Foreign material)
Product category
Snacks and confectionery
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
Geography
Multi-state
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules
CA, CT, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OH, SC, TX, VA, WA
Root cause
Not stated
Not stated by the agency
How it was found
Not stated
Not stated by the agency
Corrective action
Voluntary recall
Stated by the agency
Voluntary: Firm initiated; customers first notified by Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Status
Ongoing
Open in this dataset's terms
An administrative status: it tracks whether the agency has formally closed the record, not whether the product is still on shelves. Recalls often stay open for years after the food is gone.
Dates
Recall began: Sep 22, 2026
Reported by agency: Oct 28, 2026
Last agency update: Oct 16, 2026

What is missing or inferred

Fields the source did not provide. They are shown as "not stated", never estimated.

Fields assigned by our rules from the agency's wording: hazardType, agents, productCategory, geography. Rules version 1.0.

Record history

First seen by this site Nov 3, 2026, 1:02 AM UTC. Last changed Nov 3, 2026, 1:02 AM UTC. No tracked field has changed since.

Every version of the underlying data file is kept in the project's public history.