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The Campbell Soup Company issued a recall Thursday for 355,000 cans of SpaghettiOs Original because of a potential choking hazard. The company has received customer complaints about pieces of red plastic inside the cans.
According to the company's press release, these pieces are can lining that has peeled off. In response to consumer inquiries on its Facebook page, the company said, "The plastic is food grade," and "it is not harmful if ingested. The reason we are recalling the product is that the pieces could pose as a potential choking hazard."
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The product in question is the 14.2-ounce can stamped with the date February 22, 2017, on the bottom and the code 51000 22432 printed under the bar code. The Food and Drug Administration has listed the same information on its "Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts" page. The affected cans were produced in Paris, Texas, the company said on Facebook, and shipped to retailers in 15 states: Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arizona, California, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Idaho.
The company has been responding to comments and questions about the recall on its Facebook page. One commenter asked whether new cans might have the same issue. The company responded:
We check all of our products thoroughly before they are sent to stores. For example, SpaghettiOs passes through metal detectors, magnets and xrays. In this case, because the plastic is actually part of the can lining which has separated, our usual foreign material checks would not have identified the issue. We also believe that parts of the lining may have separated after the product left our plant. We are taking steps to review our processes, and the way our cans are manufactured, to ensure an issue such as this does not happen again.
Campbell's instructs customers not to eat SpaghettiOs from these cans and to return them to the store where they were purchased for an exchange or refund. Consumers can call 866-535-3774 between 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday, for more information.
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