Food recall

Ivar's Commissary recall: Ivar's Kettle Classic Clam Chowder With Uncured Bacon

Ivar's Commissary, of Mukilteo, WA, recalled Ivar's Kettle Classic Clam Chowder With Uncured Bacon. The FDA's reason: “Plastic fragments.” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on October 18, 2021, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of November 10, 2021. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class II

It could cause temporary or minor harm

Why

Metal, plastic, glass or other objects

Status

Terminated

Closed May 13, 2022

The recall

Company
Ivar's Commissary (Mukilteo, WA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Plastic fragments.”
Where it was sold
distributed in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
88882

The product recalled

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

  • F-0159-2022 Class II

    Ivar's Kettle Classic Clam Chowder With Uncured Bacon, Item #1952, Costco Item #1270666. The soup is refrigerated and packaged in 24 oz. clear plastic cups, in a double pack surrounded by a printed paperboard sleeve (2/24 cups per sleeve). Retail package's UPC 0 30383 19649 6. There are 8 sleeves per master case. Master case label is read in part: "***Ivar's #1952 ALL NATURAL WHITE CLAM CHOWDER *** PERISHABLE KEEP REFIGERATED *** EIGHT [2 X 24 OZ PACKAGES] *** NET WT. 24 LB***".

    Codes: Use By Date: 12-22-2021

    Quantity: 1871 cases or total 14,968 sleeves (2/24 oz. cups per sleeve)

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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 November 10, 2021.

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.