diff --git a/pyiron_base/__init__.py b/pyiron_base/__init__.py
index 3db03b253..e0149a6bd 100644
--- a/pyiron_base/__init__.py
+++ b/pyiron_base/__init__.py
@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@
 
 from pyiron_base.jobs.job.toolkit import Toolkit, BaseTools
 
-# Expose snippets references in base API for backwards compatibility
-from pyiron_snippets.import_alarm import ImportAlarm
-
 # Internal init
 from ._version import get_versions
 from pyiron_base.utils.jedi import fix_ipython_autocomplete