Why is there milk in potato chips? Are they being made differently or in different facilities now than before?
Is there a new labeling regulation kicking in?
With the chocolate recall today, this all seems very weird.
It’s the flavoring coating blends undeclared. An example is the plain chips must be produced at the start of the run, then the sour cream and chives, ranch, barbecue, chips. It’s about scheduling. No sanitation and allergen wash needs to be done going from plain and then to flavored chips. The other way around is a violation of USDA rules. An allergen wash takes about 12 hours of downtime, then allergen trace testing on the machinery. It’s no small process hitch.
The issue seems to be that it’s an unlabeled presence of milk. Maybe the regular potato chips got mixed up with the sour cream and onion chips.
It’s the cross-contamination nonsense. If a machine once touched a milk product, everything going through that machine in the future is tainted.
What I can’t figure out is what potato chip making machine might have processed milk products.