Posted on 08/05/2025 9:14:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Over 64,000 pounds of butter have been recalled due to a potential undeclared allergen, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“Bunge North America Inc., based in Missouri, initiated a voluntary recall of 64,800 pounds of its NH European Style Butter Blend on July 14 because milk may not have been listed on the product’s label,” Newsweek stated.
The FDA raised the risk classification for the recall to Class II, the second-highest warning label.
According to the FDA’s website, a class II recall is “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 Elevates Recall of 64,800 Lbs. of Butter to Second-Highest Warning Level https://t.co/HCHGude66i— People (@people) August 2, 2025
Newsweek has more:
The product affected by this recall is the following:
NH European Style Butter Blend – 64,800 pounds – UPC code: 1 00 78684 73961 2 – lot code: 5064036503 The product was packaged in white paperboard cases, with 36 blocks per case.
The cases were shipped to 12 distribution centers located throughout the U.S., and one distribution center in the Dominican Republic.
X users mocked the recall of butter due to undeclared milk.
The FDA is recalling 64,000 pounds of butter because it doesnt declare milk as an ingredient.
This is pure government waste. pic.twitter.com/TLklPFDeOr— Lakota Ma'am (@Blacknatwatch) August 3, 2025
PEOPLE noted:
Milk is listed as one of the nine major food allergens on the FDA’s website. The FDA said food-related allergic reactions can vary in severity and include mild symptoms, such as hives, face and lip swelling, vomiting, coughing or swelling.
However, people may also get more severe reactions like anaphylaxis, which “causes the immune system to release a flood of chemicals” that can cause a person to go into shock and can be fatal, per the Mayo Clinic.
The FDA said that because of this, it “enforces regulations” to require companies to list ingredients on packaged foods and beverages. The agency added that there are “more specific labeling requirements” for foods that can “cause allergies or other hypersensitivity reactions.”
The FDA advised that if anyone who eats the affected products begins to experience any allergy symptoms, they should “stop eating the food immediately, evaluate the need to use emergency medication (such as epinephrine) and seek medical attention.”
Other major food allergens listed by the FDA include eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame.
Almond Butter: Warning Contains Nuts.............
Because he’s only six months in and that’s still on the chopping block?
Many people don’t know the difference between butter and margarine.
Its amazing somebody could recall that much butter. If I had that much butter in my past, I am pretty sure I would have perished from health issues...
Idiocy is rampant in bureaucracies.
Beyond stupid bureaucrat.
Or in this case, you think it’s not from milk but it is.
No. It is butter.
It’s being recalled because the label in the box doesn’t say it has milk in it.
Nothing wrong with the butter.
Idiocy is a requirement in bureaucracies...................
Foodmakers are co-opting categories of food names...
Example: Peanut butter...Almond Butter...neither has butter(dairy) in it
Oatmeal milk, almond milk...neither has dairy milk in it...
Peeps be so stupid, they might think real butter may not have dairy in it...gotta’ protect them from their poor education .
American Cheese...Cheese Wiz...................
Left off Velveeta.................🙄
Very.
We live in a stupid universe
Indeed lawyer E.Z. Money knows how to convince them they have a case.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Velvetta. Ugh.
Clearly.
I can not say that they are not getting worse but the FDA has been strange for a very long time now.
Should there be a department to make sure that what is on the label is what you get? Probably. But they have taken their mandate way beyond that into the realm of the truly weird.
Who is stupid enough to not recognize that butter is a milk product?
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