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Mr. Zips Vape Cartridge

Voluntary recall Contamination Published August 22, 2025 · Business recall date August 21, 2025

Public-records data from the California Department of Cannabis Control. Original notice on recalls.cannabis.ca.gov.

Recall reason

“Adulterated: Pesticide Category I Contamination (Daminozide)”

The Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) is issuing this notice of voluntary recall for multiple Mr. Zips vape cartridge products due to the presence of Pesticide Category I Contamination (Daminozide). Business Recall Date8/21/2025

Product details

Product type
Vape Cartridge
Brand
Alkhemists LLC
Business website
https://www.mrzips.com/
DCC recall ID
68a38a94a2543acbbf481d07
Source URL
View on recalls.cannabis.ca.gov →

Licensees implicated

California cannabis recalls frequently name multiple licensees in different roles — the legal business of record (distributor or retailer), the manufacturer that produced the product, and the packager that prepared it for retail sale. All roles published on the DCC portal are reproduced below.

Role Licensee License number License type
Legal Business Alkhemists LLC DCC-10004691 DCC Manufacturer
Manufactured By Alkhemists LLC DCC-10004691 DCC Manufacturer

Product details

Each row below is a separately-tagged unit on the DCC recall notice. The UID number is the per-unit Metrc tracking tag — the regulator-stamped identifier that follows the unit from cultivation through retail. If you handle California cannabis distribution, you can match these UIDs against your inventory.

Product Batch Size UID Date packaged Date sold
Lemon Cherry Runtz MZ_LCR_1GV_0723 1 gram 1A4060300036B66000011419 On or after July 25, 2024 On or after August 14, 2024
First Class Funk MZ_FCF_1GV_0723 1 gram 1A4060300036B66000011420 On or after July 24, 2024 On or after August 14, 2024
Space Rocks MZ_SRK_1GV_0723 1 gram 1A4060300036B66000011421 On or after July 24, 2024 On or after August 14, 2024
Smarties MZ_SMT_1GV_0723 1 gram 1A4060300036B66000011422 On or after July 24, 2024 On or after August 14, 2024
Golden Gas MZ_GGS_1GV_0821 1 gram 1A4060300036B66000011487 On or after August 27, 2024 On or after October 04, 2024
First Class Funk MZ_FCF_1GV_0821 1 gram 1A4060300036B66000012026 On or after August 27, 2024 On or after September 13, 2024
Crescendo MZ_PCD_1GV_0821 1 gram 1A4060300036B66000012027 On or after August 27, 2024 On or after September 13, 2024

Locations where this product was sold

Retail licensees that received the recalled product. Each location's license number links to that retailer's full recall history.

HUMBOLDT ECOCANN, Inc. C10-0000218-LIC
HUMBOLDT PRIME EXOTICS, INC. C10-0001426-LIC
HUMBOLDT HUMBOLDT AF CANNABIS C12-0000093-LIC
HUMBOLDT KUDA BROS DISTRO, LLC C12-0000571-LIC
INYO NUG HOLDINGS ONE LLC C10-0001326-LIC
KERN CANA ROSE REALTY HOLDINGS LLC C12-0000405-LIC
NAPA NAPA DOWNTOWN RETAIL, INC. C10-0000417-LIC
NAPA PERFECT UNION - NAPA LLC C10-0000869-LIC
RIVERSIDE BLAZED UTOPIA LLC C10-0000760-LIC
RIVERSIDE Sundial Collective Banning, Inc. C10-0001040-LIC
RIVERSIDE INDIO RESPONSIBLE AND COMPLIANT RETAIL LLC C10-0001414-LIC
SACRAMENTO RIVER CITY PHOENIX C10-0000199-LIC
SACRAMENTO HUGS ALTERNATIVE CARE, INC. C10-0000254-LIC
SAN BERNARDINO THE HEALING CENTER NEEDLES C10-0000032-LIC
SAN FRANCISCO UGSF, Inc. C10-0000202-LIC

Showing 1–15 of 30 locations.

Cite this page

Phenominal Consulting. (2026). Mr. Zips Vape Cartridge — California cannabis recall, August 22, 2025. Phenominal recall index. Retrieved May 20, 2026, from https://phenominal.io/recalls/68a38a94a2543acbbf481d07. Underlying data: California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), recalls.cannabis.ca.gov.

Recall data refreshes daily. When citing this page in a context where the recall classification (Voluntary / Mandatory) or licensee assignment is load-bearing, also reference the authoritative DCC source above.

This page reproduces public-records data from the California Department of Cannabis Control's recall portal at recalls.cannabis.ca.gov. Phenominal Consulting maintains an organized index of the portal, refreshed daily. The underlying recall text is reproduced verbatim from the DCC notice. Category labels (contamination, label/data, mixed, other, packaging) are interpretive groupings applied by Phenominal Consulting based on the DCC reason language; they are not DCC's own classification. For the authoritative version of this recall, refer to the DCC portal. For full methodology and citation format, see the data page.

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