Posted on 04/28/2021 6:29:30 AM PDT by mylife
Wegmans says a product sold at its stores has been recalled due to a potential presence of extraneous material.
According to Wegman's, More Than Gourmet, Inc. has recalled Kitchen Accomplice Organic Beef Bone Broth Concentrate 12 oz. due to the potential presence of hydraulic oil in the product.
Product purchased between March 18 and April 25 with the use by/sell by dates of March 1, 2023 and April 8, 2023 are affected by the recall.
Wegmans says the product may be returned to the customer service desk for a full refund.
For more information, contact More Than Gourmet, Inc. at 1-800-860-9391.
Now you don’t need booze to get well lubricated.
Chinese gutter oil?
It’ll float to the top.
Just skim it off........................
Boy, that will loosen you up...
It’s organic!!
How the ‘F’ do you get hydraulic oil into beef broth with the FDA guidelines, etc.? *shakeshead*
The machines that process it could have hydraulics that leaked into it.
Unless they are alleging that someone poured it into the broth?
*shakeshead*
Aight.
An innocent accident, I’m sure. Those factories that produce beef broth and auto additives in the same room ... well ... it could happen.
That’s one way to get people off beef.
Maybe the broth will jack you up.
Why is hydraulic oil anywhere near the food production line?
Lubricants are one of my specialties, and I’ve done some consulting for some large national company’s specifically on “Food Grad” lubricants, their use and program management.
Lubricants can potentially get into food from a variety of sources is any industrial food processing plant.
They are required to use “Food Grade” lubricant’s anywhere in the proximity of the product. This requirement has very specific guidelines and is not dependent on what the company thinks is appropriate.
All Food Grade lubricants can be consumed safely in appropriately small amounts.
One potential problem is that someone could use a non food grade oil in an area when it was not allowed, and when they discover this, they will have a recall of any food that passed through in the time period that the unauthorized lubricants were in use. It does not necessarily mean the oil got in the food supply.
One of the way this happens is employees who cannot read the labels, which are printed in English, and food processing and food container plants are full of illegal invaders.
There are ways to reduce these occurrences, like using colors and shapes for labeling lubricant containers and the equipment for example. Not all companies take such steps, and not all are as diligent as they should be about keeping the non English speakers confined to the processing side, and away form the maintenance department.
Is the factory in Baltimore? The investigators should look into those guys from Emergent BioSolutions who mixed up the ingredients in the J&J vaccine. It sounds like they found new jobs making food.
Oil and lubricants are everywhere in food and food container processing plants. They are an unavoidable part of any industry.
See my post 14.
Reminds me of my old chinese made sunbeam bread machine that was leaking oil from the auger bearing into the bread..
“Hey Louie! The recipe calls for vegetable oil. Go get that barrel over there.”
I saw a lot of pneumatics in my early factory work, but not much hydraulic oil. Granted I wasn’t in food production, but we were lifting huge multi-ton rolls of paper with hydraulic power.
You don’t need 3,000 to 10,000 psi to run most industrial processes. And, if you do, wouldn’t you use food-grade hydraulic oil?
“How the ‘F’ do you get hydraulic oil into beef broth ...
Remember when the Duke Hospital’s operating room soap dispensers were dispensing hydraulic fluid? Interesting how that happened.
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