M&M's does anyone know what the "real" risk of peanut exposure is?

[ajasfolks2]

According to a site I looked at, Hershey-Ets has a "made on shared equipment with peanuts" warning.

Jessica, link for that?

[Jessica]

http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/hershey-ets

http://www.shopwell.com/hersheys-hershey-ets-valentine/chocolate/p/3400000964

these are both non hershey sites, so keep that in mind. The first says shared equipment. The second says shared facility. I have never seen hershey-ets that I know of but I'll look and see if I can find the valentine ones to see what the actual package says.

[CMdeux]

Cadbury brand (which is also Hershey in North America) had sugar-shell milk chocolate at Christmas this year.  It was labeled as safe for peanut/treenut allergy.  (no warning)

I forget what it was called.  I got some for DD's stocking.  Hm-- her package just says "Cadbury" Solid Milk Chocolates with a crisp sugar shell.

10 oz packaging.

I'm pretty sure that I've seen these before in seasonal colors for Valentines and other holidays, too.

[Jessica]

We got the cadbury ones. They are kind of like the cadbury chocolate eggs (not cream eggs) that you see at Easter.

[maeve]

We found and tried "Hershey-ets", seasonal in a candy cane shaped container.

Looked like M's but not as tasty to me.  However, these are the safest and cheapest way to have this type of candy around.  We cannot afford to keep Skippers around either money-wise or calorie-wise. I called Hershey's and told them there is a big market for this type of product if they could make it pnut and treenut free and offer it year round.

I emailed Mars about M&Ms and they just emailed back saying I should call (during business hours).
I'll post back when I've had a chance.

We purchased these as well at our local Target.  They look just like M&Ms.  I've only seen them this year at Christmas.

Hershey's used to make an M&M-like product: It was candy-coated but in the shape of a kiss. They were called Kissables.  I don't believe they make them anymore.  We enjoyed them for a couple of years but then they changed the formulation to include shea butter, and we stopped eating them.

CM and Jessica, we picked up those candy-coated Cadbury balls/BBs too.  As Jessica said, they're like smaller versions of Cadbury Mini Eggs.  BTW, my local Wegman's already had a display of the teeny bags of Mini Eggs out on New Year's Eve.

[Macabre]

They haven't made Kissables for a few years.

[maeve]

They haven't made Kissables for a few years.

Yup and we had to abandon them even before production ceased because of shea.

[Jessica]

Found valentine hershey-ets today with no warning. DD is skeptical because of Hershey drops being unsafe.

[luci]

I called Hershey's and they said Hershey-ets was peanut and treenut free - otherwise we could not have even tried them.

I sure hope the info I got from Hershey's was accurate.

[Macabre]

We trust Hershey's labeling.