Law-enforcement officials said the 95,000 chocolate bar could have been sold for more than $3 million.
An inspection in Vista in September by San Diego Sheriff's deputies and the California Department of Public Health in which"mushroom magic" chocolate bars were seized for drug testing later ballooned into the turnover of thousands of pounds of products worth millions of dollars, officials said.
The inspectors were focused on Polka Dot chocolate bars, a brand that deputies said, in a news release sent out Friday, had a"history being altered and by various manufacturers."mushrooms, were later tested at the San Diego County Regional Crime Laboratory, where they instead were found to contain two controlled substances, 4-Acetoxy-DET and 4-Hydroxy DET .
Diethyltryptamine, also known as DET, is a controlled substance, according to the sheriff's department, and is similar in chemical makeup to DMT, which officials described as a"strong psychedelic drug and hallucinogen."Members of the two agencies then returned to the business, where workers"surrendered" 95,000 chocolate bars to the CDPH which then"turned over" the bars to sheriff's deputies, authorities said.
"Products which are mislabeled and sold as safe to consumers but, in reality, are laced with dangerous levels of THC, psilocybin and other dangerous drugs, are a threat to public safety and to consumers," San Diego Sheriff Kelly Martinez said, in part, in the news release.Officials said the thousands of chocolate bars weighed more than seven tons and could have been sold for an amount in excess of $3 million.
NBC 7 has asked the department for more specifics about this story, including the name of the business and Vista and whether any arrests were made, but has yet to hear back
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