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Recall · High - Class I2019-03-13Closed Recall

Something may have got into the product that should not be there.

Product Contamination

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

Issued by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, naming Butterball.

What the notice covered

48-oz. plastic wrapped tray containing “BUTTERBALL everyday Fresh Ground Turkey WITH NATURAL FLAVORING (85% LEAN/15% FAT)” with sell or freeze by date of 7/26/18, lot code 8188, and UPC codes 22655-71555 or 22655-71557 represented on the label. ,48-oz. plastic wrapped tray containing “BUTTERBALL everyday Fresh Ground Turkey WITH NATURAL FLAVORING (93% LEAN/7% FAT)” with sell or freeze by date of 7/26/18, lot code 8188 and UPC code 22655-71556 represented on the label. ,16-oz. plastic wrapped tray containing “BUTTERBALL everyday Fresh Ground Turkey WITH NATURAL FLAVORING (85% LEAN/15% FAT)” with sell or freeze by date of 7/26/18, lot code 8188 and UPC code 22655-71546 represented on the label. ,16-oz. plastic wrapped tray containing “BUTTERBALL everyday Fresh Ground Turkey WITH NATURAL FLAVORING (93% LEAN/7% FAT)” with sell or freeze by date of 7/26/18, lot code 8188 and UPC codes 22655-71547 or 22655-71561 represented on the label ,48-oz. plastic wrapped tray containing “Kroger GROUND TURKEY FRESH 85% LEAN – 15% FAT” with sell or freeze by date of 7/26/18, lot code 8188, and UPC code 111141097993 represented on the label. ,48-oz. plastic wrapped tray containing “FOOD LION 15% fat ground turkey with natural flavorings” with sell or freeze by date of 7/26/18, lot code 8188 and UPC code 3582609294 represented on the label.

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

The record

Agency
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
Reference number
030-2019
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2019-03-13
Status on the record
Closed Recall
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates meat, poultry and egg products, which the FDA does not. It publishes each recall as its own press release.

Products we matched to this notice

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How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

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FSIS notice

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