Food recall

Homestead Creamery, Inc. recall: Homestead Creamery Unsalted Butter

Homestead Creamery, Inc., of Wirtz, VA, recalled Homestead Creamery Unsalted Butter. The FDA's reason: “Unsalted butter has potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.” The FDA classified it Class I: it could cause serious harm or death. The company began the recall voluntarily on April 1, 2020, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of May 6, 2020. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class I

It could cause serious harm or death

Why

Listeria

Status

Terminated

Closed June 26, 2020

The recall

Company
Homestead Creamery, Inc. (Wirtz, VA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Unsalted butter has potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
Where it was sold
The recalled butter was distributed to the firms' distribution partners, through our home delivery, and our retail store. The unsalted butter was distributed in a pattern of the mid-Atlantic to the northeast states.
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
85443

The product recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-0924-2020 Class I

    Homestead Creamery Unsalted Butter. 0.45 lb. net weight. 1 unit per package, cellophane wrap

    Codes: 4/30 expiration date

    Quantity: 102 Cases

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of May 6, 2020.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.