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The Clorox Company
Recall · Class II2012-06-22Terminated

May contain small pieces of metal.

The cultured nonfat buttermilk ingredient used in production of the Salad Crispins was recalled by the supplier due to potential metal fragment contamination associated with the lactic acid used in production of the ingredient.

Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.

Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming The Clorox Company.

What the notice covered

Hidden Valley Salad Crispins Original Ranch; crisp mini-croutons, crunchy carrot bits and a blend of buttermilk and spices; Net Wt. 2.5 Oz. canister, 12 canisters per case; UPC 10071100 008347

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class II means

The FDA’s middle class: use of the product may cause temporary or medically reversible health consequences, and the probability of serious harm is remote.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reference number
F-1785-2012
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2012-06-22
Terminated
2012-10-12
Status on the record
Terminated
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

We have not matched this notice to any product in our database — usually because it named no barcode we hold. Products may still have been affected.

How we are treating it

Nobody has yet assessed whether this notice concerns the products we track for this company, so it is not shown on product pages.

The government record

The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.

https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:"F-1785-2012"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-1785-2012 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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