The FDA Recalled The Butter After Its Producer Initiated A Recall Investigation
Whether you’re making toast for breakfast or preparing a baked potato for dinner, butter is likely going to slide in some way.
Cabot Creamery consumers should check twice before passing the butter.
On Tuesday, April 8, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration issued a recall of 1,701 pounds of Cabot Creamery butter. Cabot Creamery’s parent company, Agri-Mark, Inc., voluntarily recalled this product, with the FDA determining the contamination occurred within 189 cases of butter shipped to seven states.
According to the FDA’s enforcement report, the recall pertains to Cabot Creamery’s eight-ounce Extra Creamy Premium Butter, Sea Salted, which is packaged as two four-ounce sticks in cardboard shells.
The FDA goes on to note this is classified as a Class III recall, which is the FDA’s least severe classification. This recall has been issued as the product was “contaminated with elevated levels of coliform.”
The presence of coliform bacteria, which can include E. coli, does “not usually cause illness in humans,” Encyclopedia Brittanica states, but its detection in water supplies and elsewhere can indicate “the possibility of contamination with disease-causing organisms, many of which also occur in feces.”
Which States Are Affected?
The distribution of the contaminated Cabot Creamery butter has been isolated to seven states, including Arkansas, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.
However, in an April 9 press release from Agri-Mark, Inc., the Cabot Creamery producer said it “successfully recovered 99.5% of the lot of the recalled product before it was sold to consumers.”
It went on to note that 17 retail packages, amounting to 8.5 pounds, were sold to consumers in Vermont.
“Agri-Mark has identified the cause and has taken the appropriate internal actions to address it. No other products were affected. Agri-Mark is dedicated to food safety and producing quality products and is always monitoring its products for compliance.”
“There have been a variety of news reports that are incomplete and have dramatically misrepresented this recall with respect to the risk it posed to consumers.”
As of press time, Agri-Mark, Inc., says, “There have been no reported complaints or illnesses related to this product.”
If consumers do have concerns regarding this Cabot Creamery product, they are encouraged to reach out to info@cabotcreamery.com.