By Staff Reporter Thalia Eclarinal
Courtesy of Kirkland Signature
A pack of butter.
On Nov. 12, Continental Dairy Facilities Southwest issued a recall for both Kirkland Signature Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter Quarters and Kirkland Signature Salted Sweet Cream Butter Quarters, two products it had provided to Costco. This was not because there was something wrong with the butter itself, though. There was instead a mistake in the labeling—the “Contains Milk” stickers were missing. The recall affected nearly 80,000 pounds of butter in total (79,200 pounds, to be exact). 46,800 pounds of the Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter and 32,400 pounds of the Salted Sweet Cream Butter lacked the label required by the Food and Drug Association (FDA).
The FDA classified this as a “Class II” recall.
“A situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote,” FDA said.
While many social media users online have begun to poke fun at the situation or to express disappointment with a recall they find redundant, there have been a variety of other fairly recent, more serious recalls that Costco and other major grocery chains have been affected by.
There have been concerns of potential listeria contamination, especially with fully-cooked chicken products sourced from meat and poultry distributor BrucePac. Some of the affected Costco products include Rana Chicken Truffle Carbonara, El Monterey Mexican Grill Chicken and Cheese Taquitos and the ReadyWise 110 Serving Emergency Protein Bucket. It is not just Costco, however, that receives products from the company. Certain products from Trader Joe’s and Target’s “Good and Gather” brand containing chicken have been listed as potentially contaminated products.
Similarly, organic baby and whole carrots sold at Costco, Trader Joe’s, Target, Walmart, and more have been linked to an E. coli outbreak originating from Grimmway Farms carrots. The FDA currently has an ongoing investigation that is looking into and attempting to prevent further spread of the outbreak, having issued recalls on the carrots distributed nationwide and in other places like Puerto Rico.
The contaminated products should no longer be in grocery stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers, as the FDA has said in its current update of the investigation online.
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