Frozen hash brown recall due to possible golf ball materials

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Frozen hash brown recall due to possible golf ball materials

Do you love hash browns with your breakfast? Well you might have to put down your hash browns or at least stay away from a certain brand till the recall is complete. Many reports indicate this recall might have been due to a golf course near a potatoes farm. Many golfers may have inadvertently hit the golf ball into the potato field and were left there when machines harvesting them became mixes together.

Brand Name Recalled

Please check if you use the brand Teeter or Roundy’s type hash browns. Once you confirm discontinue this product. If you have any questions call the manufacture.

The food recall is in nine states under the Harris Teeter and Roundy’s brands. The potatoes may contain pieces of golf balls, according to the hash brown maker.

McCain Foods USA’s recall notice on the US Food & Drug Administration site says the hash browns could be “contaminated with extraneous golf ball materials” that “may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes used to make this product.”

“Consumption of these products may pose a choking hazard or other physical injury to the mouth,” says the notice of the voluntary recall.

Stores where this products may have been sold.

There have been no reported injuries, according to the company.
McCain Foods is recalling 2-pound bags of Roundy’s Brand Frozen Southern Style Hash Browns from Marianos, Metro Market, and Pick ‘n Save supermarkets in Illinois and Wisconsin.

 


Frozen hash brown recall due to possible golf ball materials
 


 

Here are 9 States the Hash Brown Recall is in

 

  • Harris Teeter Brand Frozen Southern Style Hash Browns sold in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia and Maryland.
  • The production code on the back of the packaging is B170119, the company says.
  • The contaminated products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
  • McCain Foods has not responded to a request for further comment.

 

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