News, Toy-Filled Chocolate Eggs Legal in US (stores, grocery, American)

[JD59]

Kinder Surprise eggs — the chocolate delicacy filled with a (surprise!) toy — have had a big impact on people’s lives. Consider the Winnipeg woman who nearly paid a $300 fine when she tried to cross the Canadian-U.S. border with one (the candy is illegal in the U.S., but more on that later). Or the highly creative man who used one to propose to his girlfriend.

Or the New Jersey businessman who loved them so much he wanted to make sure future generations of American children could enjoy them–or, at least, a similar product–as much as he does.

Toy-Filled Chocolate Eggs Hit Stores In Time for Easter - ABC News

[Pruzhany]

From the article:

Much to the distress of legions of fans, the Kinder Surprise, ...., has been banned in this country since 1938. That’s when the Food and Drug Administration passed the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which prohibits any “non-nutritive component” (for example, a toy) from being embedded in a confectionary product....

Yet its been legal for numerous decades in the US to get a King Cake that has a small toy trinket hidden somewhere in the cake. Thus one has to literally crumble it apart before feeding a child a slice of it.

King cake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yet its legal in the US. Amazing how a law is used in the US vs an item not from the US.

[fruitlassie]

You can still find Kinder Eggs in the US at middle eastern grocery stores and bodegas. I lived in Germany for close to 8 years and never heard of any kid accidentally choking on the toy...lift the silly ban already.