Costco voluntarily recalled 79,200 pounds of two types of its store-brand butter over the past month because their labels may not have said the products contain milk.
The membership club recalled 46,800 pounds of the Kirkland Signature Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter and 32,400 pounds of Kirkland Signature Salted Sweet Cream Butter.
The 46,800 pounds of recalled butter were distributed to Costco locations throughout Texas.
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The packages of butter list "cream" among their contents, but may be missing the "Contains Milk" statement on their ingredients labels, according to the FDA.
Really? People need to be told that butter is made from milk?
This seems to be a month of idiocy.
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It's likely the law. Listing all ingredients seems like a good idea especially given the plethora of allergic reactions. But it clearly leads to apparent absurdities. What seems obvious to most may not be to others; note the recent election results. It will be tricky to amend the rules without inadvertently creating loopholes that could be lethal.
That’s exactly it…the law specifies what must be listed and how. It we don’t enforce a law, then the next time some kid dies from unlisted peanuts, the parents get told “We’re sorry the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups didn’t list peanuts as in ingredient, we just figured it would be clear” and are SOL (and, yes, it’s mainly their fault). The problem here is at what point is it “obvious”…just think about your everyday interactions, and you’ll probably easily be able to name a dozen people that likely shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions because they couldn’t tell you if butter contains milk.
It is the Pure Foods law. The omission means some likely price
increase... and what to you do with roughly 80,000 pounds of food
that is now technically waste.
Eck!
Funny how they to list milk in butter as an ingredient but some other ingredients are listed as spices or flavoring. Reminds of years ago when they had to put warnings on rotary lawn mowers not to try to lift it up and use it to trim your bushes.
That's an urban legend, Dan. It never happened.
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