Perhaps due to several highly publicized deaths and near-deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area among children and elderly due to suffocation while eating konjac candy, there were U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) product warnings[1] in 2001 and subsequent recalls in the United States and Canada. Unlike gelatine and some other commonly used gelling agents, konjac fruit jelly does not melt readily in the mouth. Some products formed a gel strong enough such that only chewing, not tongue pressure or breathing pressure, could disintegrate the gel. Although the product is intended to be eaten by gently squeezing the gel's cup, a consumer could suck the product out with enough force to unintentionally lodge it in his trachea. Konjac fruit jelly was subsequently also banned in the European Union.
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Perhaps due to several highly publicized deaths and near-deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area among children and elderly due to suffocation while eating konjac candy, there were U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) product warnings[1] in 2001 and subsequent recalls in the United States and Canada. Unlike gelatine and some other commonly used gelling agents, konjac fruit jelly does not melt readily in the mouth. Some products formed a gel strong enough such that only chewing, not tongue pressure or breathing pressure, could disintegrate the gel. Although the product is intended to be eaten by gently squeezing the gel's cup, a consumer could suck the product out with enough force to unintentionally lodge it in his trachea. Konjac fruit jelly was subsequently also banned in the European Union.