Costco Recalls 80,000 Pounds of Butter Since Label Didn’t Say ‘Contains Milk’
Big Government at work: FDA asks consumers to return improperly labeled butter for refund.
When President Donald Trump takes office in January, he is going to have many fresh examples of bureaucratic over-reach and inanity to point to when the leftists complain about his ambitious ‘government efficiency’ plans.
The disgraceful behavior of the Federal Emergency Management Agency team members who skipped the homes of Trump supporters may likely be the left’s “January 6th” moment.
Many voters are still angry over Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon, social media sensations, who were both euthanized by New York state authorities after their owner’s home was raided. This event likely contributed to Trump receiving over 40% of the vote in that state, the best Republican performance in New York since 2004.
Now comes news that Costco recalled nearly 80,000 pounds of butter due to labels lacking the necessary “Contains Milk” allergen warning on its packaging, despite containing cream as an ingredient.
Costco was forced to recall nearly 80,000 pounds of butter because the label failed to mention that the kitchen staple contains milk — and many social media users are rolling their eyes at the dairy dilemma.
The FDA sent out an initial recall for 79,200 pounds of Kirkland Signature butter due to the undeclared allergen in October. Packages for both the salted and unsalted Kirkland Signature Sweet Cream Butter list cream as an ingredient, but do not include an allergy warning that the butter “Contains Milk.”
The bizarre recall has left many internet users scratching their heads. The most common comment: “It’s butter.”
80,000 pounds of Costco butter was just recalled, because the label doesn't say that it contains milk.
It's butter.
News articles are telling people how they can return, or safely dispose of, the butter.
It's butter.
— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) November 11, 2024
Back when I was young, our school trips were to farms and historic sites. We learned about how food is made. I even recall churning cream during a visit, which resulted in gloriously delicious butter.
Who went to a farm and churned butter when they were a kid? pic.twitter.com/bXeX9qwv73
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) November 12, 2024
I assume everyone knows that butter comes from cow’s milk. If that isn’t the case, then I would like to know why.
I suspect it would be because our dreadful woke-educational complex no longer offers school trips to farms or colonial history sites. If so, this would be another example for the Trump team to use, this time when they need to explain why they are restructuring the nation’s educational system.
Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offered an astonishing recommendation about the butter that had already been bought without the proper labeling.
The FDA advised shoppers who’ve purchased a recalled product not to give it to other individuals or pets.
They’ve also pointed out that stores will often offer shoppers a full refund if the product was not used before the recall.
The FDA has explained what Costco customers can do if they’ve purchased the affected Kirkland unsalted or salted butter packages.
Chances are high that people with dairy allergies already know not to buy butter. So, why would consumers who intentionally selected the creamy goodness want to return or trash it?
Now, I completely understand some suffer from allergic reactions to dairy products. Hence, there are FDA guidelines:
Companies have to label food products that have milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame under the law, according to the FDA.
The recalls for potentially not having the notice about milk, an ingredient that some social media users suggested should be common sense to consumers, came roughly a month before the FDA labeled them “Class II,” a classification that the FDA said indicates a product “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
I work in the realm where hazard labeling is important. I have to ask, why wasn’t Costco given the opportunity to simply add a small label saying “Contains Milk” on its packing?
There was an easy fix to this situation. Why was it not explored? Why is a recall of a basic dietary item that was properly made the go-to solution?
I have my own concerns. In the past few months, significant quantities of meat products have been recalled to due listeria. The loss of product and the lack of oversight where it is needed is very troubling.
And I am very mindful of the continued undermining of dairy farmers and cattle ranchers by several federal agencies.
- NYT Pushes “Groundwater Crisis” to Attack America’s Poultry and Dairy Industries
- U.S. Cattle Inventory to Lowest Levels Recorded in 73 years
- EPA Seems to Be Setting Up U.S. to Join the Globalist “War on Meat
- California Climate Change Legislation Targets Flatulent Cows
Hopefully, the new administration will be more serious about food security and less concerned about trite label hiccups.
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I can’t believe it’s not butter.
It’s not good to fool Mother Nature.
Is it real or Memorex?
Someone at the FDA must believe that the producers of Kirkland butter voted Republican.
They just gave RFK Jr his first assignment at the FDA.
OH MY GOD.
DONT BUY BUTTER AT COSCO.
IT HAS MILK IN IT
Butter contains dairy – no kidding! Anybody who has problems digesting dairy products already knows about this.
After a lifetime of enjoying milk, butter, and cheese, I started developing … ummm … embarrassing lower intestinal problems. It took little time to understand that I was seeing age related lactose intolerance. Ten drops of lactase in a half gallon of 2% milk and using the lactase pills when enjoying butter or cheese takes care of the problem.
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There are a LOT of these contradictory food labeling regulations. Honestly, I’m find with food labeling laws in the abstract. It’s a good idea for government to define what a food product is, specifically, and only allow products that meet those specific ingredients to label their product with that defined term, like ‘butter.’ In the US, we have defined butter. BUT, we also allow ‘Canola Butter’ and Olive Oil Butter and even the ridiculous ‘Vegan Butter.’ Vegan Butter cannot be a thing. But, there it is on your grocer’s shelves.
Like almond “milk” and cashew “milk.” Milk is from mammals, not plants.
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Yes, the ‘milk’ thing drives me mad, too. We’re going to see an explosion ‘meat’ substitutes as well as the terms that have historically been used to describe specific cuts of meat like ‘steak’ and ‘hamburger.’ There is no such thing as vegan meat, steak or hamburger….or vegan ‘seafood.’ If it didn’t live in the sea and wasn’t part of the animal kingdom, then it’s not seafood, period.
Yes, there is. Veggie burgers that don’t pretend to be meat but try to approximate it have been a thing for decades. Morningstar, Boca, and Lightlife all date back to the ’70s.
Now we have Beyond and Impossible, which actually do provide almost the same experience as actual hamburgers, which is useful for those of us who for one reason or another prefer not to use real ones. So on what grounds would you ban them from doing business and labeling their product what it is? What kind of idiot consumer would be harmed?
It is not meat, Milhouse.
Veggie burger is one thing.
Vegan ‘steak’ ‘chicken’ turkey’ ‘fish’
is quite another.
But, as always, you take the side of the cravens and liars who would use state power to impose a reality that does and can not exist on the world.
Hey, demonspawn, you are the one here arguing for the use of state power to prevent a useful and popular product from being marketed under the name by which it is known, a name that does not mislead the consumer in any way.
The reality is that vegan meat exists. And the reality is that some consumers like it. That’s all that matters. You are the Karen trying to steal people’s liberty because you don’t like their choices.
Milk is from mammals. But almond milk is not. That is not my opinion, it is a fact of the English language. Almond milk has been known by that name for many centuries, far longer than the USA has existed, let alone the FDA, or any government regulation of product names.
You seem to be adopting the dictatorial and fundamentally left-wing attitude of the dairy industry, which about 10-15 years ago lobbied the FDA hard to ban the sale of almond milk under its correct name, allegedly for fear that some stupid consumer would think something called almond milk comes from cows! Thankfully that effort failed.
I mean what are you going to ban next? Peanut butter?!
But it’s ridiculous that non-dairy ice cream can’t be sold under that name. What part of “non-dairy” do they think people don’t understand? When the label says clearly that it is not made from cream, what is the consumer being protected from?
I certainly have known of “coconut milk” all my life.
Exactly. But almond milk goes back to before Europeans ever encountered coconuts.
What I find egregious about the recall is that it isn’t directed at persons who are allergic to milk products, telling them to return or destroy the product. Why not a caveat, “The consumption of this product is perfectly safe for those without an allergy to milk products”?
Their job isn’t to tell people when things are safe. Duh.
Despair, fear, and panic are their tools.
Brain-dead idiotic morons.
I don’t recall seeing a warning label on the milk I bought yesterday that it may contain dairy products. Am I going to die?
Actually, I was going to say that same thing, for a laugh but I decided to check it, first … and what I found out was CRAZY!!! See my comment below.
I just checked. My yogurt and creamer also do not say “Contains Milk”. I’M GONNA DIE
The FDA should instead go after the Dihydrogen Monoxide producers:
https://www.dhmo.org
Leslie, you should investigate the situation of Amish farmer Amos Miller, in PA. The State’s apparatus has been after him for selling unpasteurized milk products to out-of-state buyers. Robert Barnes has been working this case for Miller.
Find here individual videos in which the subject is discussed:
https://rumble.com/user/vivafrei/videos
A specific video here:
https://rumble.com/v4n25a2-food-freedom-under-attack-robert-barnes-defends-amish-farmer-targeted-by-st.html
Just for laughs I took a look at some milk cartons to see if they say that they contain milk … AND THEY DO!!! Whole Milk bottles actually have written on their ingredients “Milk, Vitamin D3” and right after they all have printed “CONTAINS: MILK”.
Now, THAT is crazy!! Government is an incubating ground for lunatics.
Why the “recall” over this? How are the butter buyers supposed to be notified that they can return their deadly pats of butter? You would think that they could, instead, notify them that they are holding onto deadly milk products, instead.
I’ve heard that, in compensation, the FDA is allowing butter buyers 3 free mRNA shots of their choice for their killer butter.
With Costco, you have to buy four pounds of butter.
I actually have some of the offending butter.
Why in the world would I return the butter I want merely to get it in writing that my butter contains milk?
You cannot fix stupid!
You can fix stupid.
The methods commonly used are generally frowned upon in a peaceful society.
This is one for the archives of gov’t bureaucracy; no diary/milk wording on ….butter. These ass clowns gotta go.
The FDA may force a recall of the Milky Way Galaxy for false advertising…. it does contain only a trace amount of milk.
RFK Jr is going to be like a kid in a candy shop at that place. Trump is going to go horse shouting Your Fired and Your Fired and Your Fired.
Leslie- there is big happenings tomorrow in that other story you are covering. Insiders will have info.
I think the butter is also faulty and dangerous because there is no warning not to try and put it into electrical sockets.
“There was an easy fix to this situation. Why was it not explored? Why is a recall of a basic dietary item that was properly made the go-to solution?”
I can answer this – I used to work in management for a company subject to FDA regulations. The answer? The bureaucratic types in these areas get their validation and praise for conducting recalls, NOT for solving the problem.
I remember the people in compliance functions being first to push hardest for the largest recalls, even when there is no risk. Then, they get visibility – they get to grab resources, bark orders to everyone, present to management breathlessly about the latest updates, and give each other awards for how hard they are working.
People do what they are rewarded for, and resolving issues without drama is unfortunately not what most organizations reward.
Breath-taking stupidity. Our government at work.
The breath-taking stupidity is that every single one of the regulations is written in
blood* the use of an epi pen. There was actually someone who took their plugged-in toaster into the bathtub, and the lawyers wrote a warning to keep them from getting sued after that. Someone lactose intolerant ate butter, not knowing it was a milk product. Someone drank Drano, so it’s now labeled “Not for internal use.”The stupidity on display here is merely the average stupidity of a rigid-minded bureaucrat.
(* “Every regulation is written in blood” is the standard response to similar items in Air Force flight manuals for different aircraft. Often followed by “Wait, you mean someone actually did that?”)
1) A good approach would be for Costco to put up signs in the dairy section, saying, “If you don’t know by now that BUTTER is MILK, then you should probably check with the front desk about one of our personal shoppers accompanying you during your visit.” Then, in smaller print, “You should probably also go put back that 5-pack of scissors.”
2) It would have been easier to just have Costco notify all their customers that if they’re buying butter, it will always contain milk. Otherwise it should be labeled “margarine.” (Also, any thing with an asterisk by “butter.”)
3) This is what happens in a Safetyist world. You get the warnings to not take your plugged in toaster into the tub with you, don’t drink the car battery fluid, peanut butter contains peanuts, and real butter contains milk. The education system isolates its charges from the real world and fills their head with (to some large extent) unreal things, so they don’t recognize the obvious when life is slapping them in the face.
The only problem with the butter is that it contains salt. A chef told me to buy unsalted butter. Then, if you need salted butter, add your own, probably better-quality salt.
“I assume everyone knows that butter comes from cow’s milk. If that isn’t the case, then I would like to know why.”
It’s the byproduct of a niggardly government education.
Still, playing “Nanny, may I?” with the FDA is a hell of a lot safer than playing it with the BATF.
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