Whole Foods Market Peanut Butter & Yah Brownies Recalled for Metal Shavings
Whole Foods Market is recalling Peanut Butter & Yah Brownies because metal shavings were found around the perimeter of the product.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class II
Class II is a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.
This is the agency’s own classification, taken from its notice. The severity score below is our assessment, not the agency’s. How recall classes work
What this means for you
Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 3/5 (High).
Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.
Our severity reasoning: The recall involves a risk-of-harm product (metal contamination) where injury has not yet been reported, fitting the High severity criteria.
Plain-English summary
Whole Foods Market is voluntarily recalling specific units of Peanut Butter & Yah Brownies. The recall was initiated after a customer reported finding metal shavings around the perimeter of the brownies.
The affected products are sold as single 3-oz units and 4-pack 15-oz boxes. The recall includes 10 single units and 129 4-packs. These items were distributed to one retail location in California and have a best-by date of before December 7, 2015.
Consumers who have purchased these brownies should stop using them and return them to the place of purchase for a refund. The product contains wheat, eggs, milk, soy, and peanuts.
The recalled product
- Product
- Whole Foods Market Peanut Butter & Yah Brownie; Sold as Single- 3. oz and 4 pack 15 oz;. Ingredients: Ingredients: Cane sugar, cage free eggs, expeller pressed canola oil, unbleached wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley, flour, niacin, iron, folic acid) cocoa powder…
- Manufacturer
- Whole Foods Market
- Category
- Food — Baked Goods
- Hazard
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Lot numbers (1)
- Best by date of before 12/7/15.
Distribution
Distributed in 1 state:
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 7 recalled by Whole Foods Market under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.
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