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UPPER EAST SIDE — Manhattan candy sellers had their Kinder eggs confiscated in raids by Consumer Product Safety Commission last week, DNAinfo has learned.
The businesses, which sold the hollow milk chocolate eggs that contain a toy in a plastic capsule, were profiled by DNAinfo last week. The CPSC has banned the eggs, which are popular abroad and made by Italian manufacturer, Ferraro, because they are viewed as a choking hazard.
At TriBeCa's gourmet Jin Market, the CPSC seized a box of Kinder eggs, which have labels saying for children three and up.
"They said it's illegal," said Joseph Ramirez, who works at Jin Market. "They took it out of the store."
Jigs Patel, who recently opened the London Candy Co. on the Upper East Side, where he is importing candy from the U.K., had already run out of his Kinder eggs by the time he got his visit from a CPSC official just before Easter.
"They obviously took this very seriously," Patel said. "I actually found it very amusing. It's a bloody chocolate with a toy inside. It's not smuggling crack cocaine."
He said that customers in the store that day found it funny, too.
"They were like, 'Don't they have better things to do than hunt down Kinder eggs?'"
The phone at London Candy Co. rang off the hook after DNAinfo's article ran with people seeking the hard-to-find chocolates.
"The phone went nuts," Patel said. "The people still want it."
One reader posted a comment on DNAinfo saying he was going to start a campaign to petition the government to "stop this nonsense."
Read more: Federal Officials Raid Manhattan Stores Selling Kinder Eggs - DNAinfo.com
As IF everyone in NY is under THREE YEARS OLD!
Wasn't this, once upon a time, left up to the PARENTS?????????
You just put a warning up that there could be a choking hazard for those under 3 and left it at that?
Now, the Feds come in like it's a drug raid FOR CHOCOLATE EGGS???
This is what you have, with the Nanny State. You can't decide for yourself if you can have a freaking chocolate egg. The government is going to decide for you!