Posted on 01/16/2021 9:27:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
Nestlé Prepared Foods is recalling more than 762,000 pounds of pepperoni Hot Pockets, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said.
The frozen stuffed sandwiches — shipped to retail stores nationwide — are being recalled because they “may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of glass and hard plastic,” the USDA said Friday.
The problem was discovered when the company received four consumer complaints of extraneous material in pepperoni Hot Pockets, the department said. The company has received one report of a “minor oral injury” associated with consumption of the product, the USDA said.
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Really?
What part, the disappearing of food from the stores? Oh yeah, frozen pizzas and snacks were the first to go in our area, followed closely by canned pasta, chili, and beans.
Don’t bury the lede!
“The recall is for 54-ounce packages containing 12 “Nestlé Hot Pockets Brand Sandwiches: Premium Pepperoni made with pork, chicken and beef pizza garlic buttery crust.” Affected boxes have a “Best before Feb 2022” date and lot codes of 0318544624, 0319544614, 0320544614 and 0321544614, the department said.
The boxes also have the establishment number “EST. 7721A” inside the USDA mark of inspection.”
Nestle has some of the most severe, stringent, and onerous procedures for correcting glass contamination that I know of. When Nestle tells their employees glass production is over, dismantles equipment to the bone yard, and then gives the old tallyho we’re bringing it back—dark thoughts ensue.
Glass jewelry, Gorilla glass, and common plant area lab instruments.
Watches are allowed in possession but not to be worn. Typical magnets will not seize metal/glass jewelry very well, if it is ground up.
Glass can cling to shoes.
Any ingredient transported into a plant can contain contaminants.
I stocked up on frozen Alaskan salmon, frozen grass-fed beef, cans of wild sockeye salmon, and cans of sardines.
Do workers go through a cleanroom?
Canned pasta? When I was a kid, only kids ate that. From a storage perspective, wouldn't regular, dry pasta be better?
Well, good for you. Moms don’t feed their kids that, and teenagers at home are also not going to eat that. They were looking for quick and easy, particularly for the parents who still needed to go into work and leave their kids at home. Frozen quick foods, canned foods, boxed mac & cheese and the like were out of stock first here in Central Texas.
No one was looking at the lock down as an extended period of time. Remember, “two weeks!” is what we were told. If they has said the rest of 2020, I imagine the food items hit first may have been different.
#25. Farfel? “Nestles makes the very best CHOCOLATE”. (Sound of mouth clamping closed)
By the way, didn’t Mae West ask “Is that a pepperoni in your pocket or are your pants pockets hot to see me”?
We’re on something like Day 310 of Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve.
Here’s it quick oats and canned salmon.
No idea why.
Don’t even want to ponder *that* recipe.
A few years back a similar recall occurred at unrelated company. After months of analysis, it was discovered incident was traced to a bin of ingredients backed into a wall mounted fire extinguisher in area outside a cooler. The gauge was broken. Case study at auditor certification in root cause analysis
Why would anyone eat garbage like this.
Chocolate...
Hot Pockets being recalled - **again**.
Seems like every two years of so tens of 1000s of pounds of products get dumped owing to some kind of contamination or the other.
Never had one, never will. They are one the many “junk foods” that litter the US foodscape....
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