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Every brand whose products we've reviewed gets a page — how many of their products we've tagged, which lists they appear in, and what we'd buy or skip. Brand pages are generated from the product records, so the counts are always current.
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A brand tier is a summary, never a verdict.Tiers are computed from the products we've already tagged — a brand can have a “Strong record” and still have one product we'd skip, and a brand on watch can make one thing we love. Always read the product page. Brands we've fully reviewed also carry a safety grade — that one is our editorial verdict, and it links to the full review. How brand tiers are calculated
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- Surf SweetsRecommendedfood-dyes · We found no FDA enforcement record with Surf Sweets, SurfSweets, TruSweets, Sweet Candy Company or Wholesome Sweeteners as the recalling firm, and none naming Surf Sweets in a product description, in openFDA food and drug enforcement as of 2026-10-12. CPSC returned nothing for Surf Sweets or Sweet Candy. We found no 60-day notice naming Surf Sweets, TruSweets or Sweet Candy Company on the California Attorney General's Proposition 65 register as of the same date. Two records that a search turns up are not this brand's: notice 2013-00802 names "Sweet Candy, LLC" of Orange, California, an unrelated company, over licorice, and notices 2017-00159 and 2018-01672 name Wholesome Sweeteners, Inc., which owned Surf Sweets at the time, over molasses, a different product line under a former owner. Proposition 65 is a warning-label statute: a notice alleges a missing warning, not that a product was found unsafe. Certifications, each read on the certifier's own register on 2026-10-12. USDA Organic: the Organic Integrity Database lists Sweet Candy Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, as a certified handler under Quality Assurance International, with "Gummy Worms", "Gummy Bears" and "Sweet's Organic Fruit Snacks" on its product list; the products are listed without the Surf Sweets brand name. Gluten-free: GFCO's product finder lists Surf Sweets products including "Gummy Worms 2.75 oz" (UPC 891475001025). Non-GMO: the Non-GMO Project lists four Surf Sweets products (Cinnamon Organic Bears, Organic Cubby Bears, Organic Delish Fish and Organic Sour Fruity Rings) and not the Gummy Worms. The pack also carries the 1% for the Planet logo, which marks an environmental-giving membership, not a safety certification. We found no product-safety or labeling case naming Surf Sweets, TruSweets or Sweet Candy Company on CourtListener as of 2026-10-12. The two recent federal dockets that name Sweet Candy Company are Americans with Disabilities Act suits, both closed: Williams v. Sweet Candy Company (S.D.N.Y. 1:21-cv-02206, filed 2021-03-12, closed 2021-07-09) and Bennett v. Sweet Candy Company (N.D. Ill. 1:26-cv-03391, filed 2026-03-27, closed 2026-07-23). Neither is a product matter.
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- Torie & HowardRecommendedfood-dyes · USDA Organic Integrity Database, read 2026-10-12: American Licorice Co., NOP ID 8150013059, certifier Oregon Tilth Certified Organic, status Certified, effective 2020-04-16, with the Torie & Howard hard candies and lollipops listed under its handling scope. We found no FDA food enforcement record under the firm names "Torie", "Torie & Howard" or "Torie and Howard", and none whose product description names the brand, in openFDA as of 2026-10-12; no Proposition 65 notice names the brand by defendant or product; no federal docket names it. Parent-company record, kept separate because none of it is this brand's: three FDA food enforcement events for American Licorice, all terminated — Class II, initiated 2012-08-21, Red Vines black licorice and Snaps, after California's health department found elevated lead; Class II, initiated 2012-10-02, Natural Vines black licorice, after the firm's own sampling found elevated lead; and Class III, initiated 2014-04-25, Red Vines Fruit Vines Bites, for a nutrition panel that printed sodium as 35 g instead of 35 mg. One Proposition 65 court case named American Licorice among some twenty licorice makers and retailers (CEH v. Trader Joe's Company, San Francisco Superior Court CGC-12-527270, lead in licorice), settled in 2014 with reformulation and a judgment entered 2014-07-02; a 2025 notice over a sugar-free Red Vines black licorice was withdrawn two weeks after it was filed. Proposition 65 is a warning-label statute and those claims alleged a missing warning. Federal dockets naming American Licorice are employment, contract, trademark, disability-access and bankruptcy matters, plus one personal-injury product-liability case from 1994 that we did not read.
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How brand tiers are calculated
Tiers derive from the SafeMama Scores and recall records of a brand's tagged products — nothing is assigned by hand, and a tier updates the moment its products do.
- On watchAny product currently under an active recall.
- Not yet ratedNo products with a computed SafeMama Score yet.
- Strong recordEvery scored product sits in the Safer-choice band (80 or above).
- Mixed recordAnything else — at least one scored product below 80.
The score formula itself is published at how we choose.