Preferred Popcorn recall: Organic Yellow Popcorn packaged in the following ways

The recall

Company

Preferred Popcorn (Chapman, NE)

Reason, in FDA's words

“Popcorn may contain foreign material: tempered glass between 3 mm and 7 mm in size”

Where it was sold

Distributed to the US States CA, CO, CT, FL, IA, IL, KY, OH, SD, WI, and British Columbia, Canada

Recall began

August 28, 2020, by the company

FDA classified it

September 14, 2020

First in an FDA Enforcement Report

September 16, 2020

FDA event number

86353

The product recalled

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

• F-1437-2020 Class II

  Organic Yellow Popcorn packaged in the following ways: 1) Great Northern Organic Popcorn, Net Wt. 5 Pounds (2.26 Kilograms), UPC 6 10708 14709 1; 2) Hometown Food Company, Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 3) Lesser Evil, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2185 LBS Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 4) Medium Organic Yellow Popcorn, 25 LB (11.34 Kg) Preferred Popcorn LLC; 5) Medium Organic Yellow Popcorn, 50 LB (22.68 Kg) Preferred Popcorn LLC; 6) Shearer's, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 7) Specialty Food Group, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 8) Trader Joes Organic Popping Corn, Net Wt. 28 OZ (1 lb 12 oz) 794 g, Dist. & Sold Exclusively by Trader Joe's Monrovia, CA UPC 0094 5288 9) Troystar Packaging, Inc. Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2000 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 10) Whole Alternatives, Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2000 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 11) Preferred Popcorn Organic Yellow Popcorn, Net Wt. 28oz / 794 g, Preferred Popcorn, LLC, Chapman, NE, UPC 7 64256 44035 4 12) Preferred Popcorn Organic Butterfly Popcorn, Net Wt. 50 lbs (22.68 kg), Preferred Popcorn, LLC, Chapman, NE, UPC 7 64256 30002 3

  Codes: PN116-9402A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9560A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9048A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9171A,Exp: 6/2021: PN122-9241A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9248A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9304A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9342A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9343A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9366A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9367A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9370A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9437A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9559A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9601A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9602A,Exp: 8/2021: PN125-9538A,Exp: 8/2021: PN125-9610A,Exp: 9/2021: PN128-9266A,Exp: 7/2021: PNB128-9102A,Exp: 8/2021: PNR1229140A,BB 02-JUL-2021: PNR1229243A,BB 09-JUL-2021: PNR1229286A,Exp: 03-AUG-2021: PNR1229406A,BB 04-AUG-2021: PNR1229476A,BB 31-JAN-2022: PNR1229479A,BB 31-JAN-2022: PNR1229547A,BB 05-AUG-2021: PNR1229639A,Exp: 8/2021: PNR1279183A,BB 25-JUN-2021: PNT116-9328A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9079A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9080A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9093A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9094A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9195A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9283A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9307A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9318A,Exp: 7/2021:...

  Quantity: 1,162,117 lbs

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 September 16, 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.