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Subscribe to RSSOcean Spray is recalling certain lots of packaged and bulk original flavor Craisins -- sweetened dried cranberries -- because they may be contaminated with small, hairlike metal particles.
Ocean Spray announced the voluntary recall late Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, one of the most cranberry-centric holidays of the year. The company initiated the recall on Wednesday, according to spokesman John Isaf. It wasn't clear when officials became aware of the problem.
Company officials say certain lots of Craisins in 5-ounce, 10-ounce and 48-ounce packages are affected by the recall, as well as bulk sweetened dried cranberries in 10-pound packages.
Isaf would not give an exact total of volume of cranberries recalled, saying only that it was "very small," or less than one-quarter of 1 percent of the total pounds of dried cranberries produced annually.
However, in an e-mail to a New England business newspaper summer, Isaf reportedly said that dried cranberry production at the firm's Middleboro site would increase from 40 million pounds a year to 60 million pounds annually. Using that figure, the recall could involve about 150,000 pounds of sweetened dried cranberries.
Officials said they've received no reports of consumers harmed by the metal fragments. They added that the particles are unlikely to cause injury. The fragments were caused by a malfunction on a piece of equipment on the production line at one of the firm's cranberry-making facilities. The problem has been identified and corrected, Isaf said.
The recalled product lots (only dates followed by the letter M are affected) are:
- 5-oz. Craisins UPC: 00293-000 Best By Dates/Letter: Oct 27 2012 M
- 10-oz. Craisins UPC: 29456-000 and 29464-000 Best By Dates/Letter: Oct 27 2012 M, Oct 28 2012 M, Oct 29 2012 M
- 48-oz. Craisins UPC: 00678-318 Best By Dates/Letter: Oct 27 2012 M, Oct 28 2012 M, Nov 3 2012 M, Nov 4 2012 M, Nov 5 2012 M, Nov 6 2012 M, Nov 7 2012 M, Nov 10 2012 M, Nov 11 2012 M.
- 10-lb. bulk ingredient & food service UPC: 03477-000 Best By Dates/Letter: 30 Oct 2013 M, 31 Oct 2013 M, 1 Nov 2013 M, 5 Nov 2013 M.
Ocean Spray urged consumers to destroy the product, save the UPC label and Best By dates and contact the Ocean Spray consumer hotline at 1-800-662-3263.
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At this rate anything you eat that is processed may kill you. Oh, wait...
Where and how? What makes this different than any other product delivery? Not asking too much here.
Thanks for the info regarding the recall notice.
they should have warned the public days before Thanksgiving!! They wait till the day before??? disgraceful.
Oh a little bit of metal isn't going to hurt anyone. I have a bowl of nails every morning for breakfast.
I wonder are there generic labeled store brands involved as well.. Probably came to light after someone got metal shavings stuck in their throat and we will never hear about that because of out of court settlements and {pardon the pun} gag orders.. Good news is product safety and manufacturer responsibility in the US is better than it was years ago.. Peanut prices soared after that contamination scandal because insurance companies jacked their rates for that whole industry.. Same goes for fresh veggies, meat, mushrooms and lets just guess what medical care prices are influenced by law suits and insurance companies..
Seems the race for cash is making American products as reliable as Chinese.. Maintenance crew forgot to calibrate the metal detector before or during a product run.. Or some supervisor who gets a time bonus for production cheated the logs for the cash..
Less regulation is just what is needed in this situation as this problem would then have been noticed much earlier as the larger metal pieces would have cut through the bags instead of peoples' mouths. And a true 'free' market system would have ensured that every family could buy an inexpensive metal detector of their own to scan their own food. Another example of how self-regulation would work by companies in the food industry. Yeah right.
Sounds like a business opportunity to me.. Small hand held metal detectors from RONCO at a WallyWorld near you.. Or this is another app that could be added to your 5G cell phone..
Well, if Craisins didn't already go through me like a primitive canal, now we've got metal shavings to carve out a new path. I hope no one was injured, but ingesting metal shavings just can't be a good thing.
Roger that lawful1,
Makes flying during the holiday's tuff gettin thru those dang old metal detectors...
My guess, it's probably as good for your health as being any type of terrorist. Either way, there's shrapnel involved.
wow guess that's one way to get your iron for the day.
Is it just me, or have there been quite of few recalls involving food lately? You would think all the money spent on regulating our meals would prevent things of this nature.
Time to recall manufacturers. Find where the real filth and grim comes and shut them down. We eat their cheap parts.
Thanks a lot Ocean Spray!
You've permanently ruined Thanksgiving!!!
Just read another article on MSN,
"""""""A second chance for faulty food? FDA calls it 'reconditioning'"""""""""""""
They will just reprocess and say, "CLEAN"
What sucks about this is that i have regularly but craisins over the last several weeks, made them into a granola cereal my wife and I eat. I didn't keep the bag (certainly didn't think I would need to), nor do i have a receipt. Is Ocean Spray going to refund me without proof although I just ingested the last of this cereal yesterday???? Another vote for an earlier notice would have been nice!!!!
Who eats this crap anyway?
Isn't it convenient for this recall to come out AFTER a major, food-based holiday? Hmmm.
Another example of the 1% sidestepping an issue that affects the middle and lower classes only. Boycott Ocean Spray products, it is that simple. They are willing to choke you to death so you should be reticent to toss money at them and give them another chance to kill you.