Food recall

Meadowgold Dairies Hawaii LLC recall: Meadow Gold Hawaii's Dairy Fat Free Chocolate Milk, Grade A Pasteurized Homogenized Vitamin A&D, half-pint carton

Meadowgold Dairies Hawaii LLC, of Hilo, HI, recalled Meadow Gold Hawaii's Dairy Fat Free Chocolate Milk, Grade A Pasteurized Homogenized Vitamin A&D, half-pint carton. The FDA's reason: “Half-pint chocolate fat free milk is recalled due to potential quality control issues.” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on October 14, 2025, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of December 10, 2025. 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

Labeling, packaging or manufacturing problems

Status

Terminated

Closed March 4, 2026

The recall

Company
Meadowgold Dairies Hawaii LLC (Hilo, HI)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Half-pint chocolate fat free milk is recalled due to potential quality control issues.”
Where it was sold
distributed in HI
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
97838

The product recalled

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

  • H-0214-2026 Class II

    Meadow Gold Hawaii's Dairy Fat Free Chocolate Milk, Grade A Pasteurized Homogenized Vitamin A&D, half-pint carton. Product is perishable keep refrigerated. UPC 8 50019 06410 0. Ingredients: Nonfat Milk, Sugar Cane, Cocoa (processed with Alkali), Corn Starch, Carrageenan, Salt, Natural Flavor, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D3. Distributed By: Meadow Gold Dairies, Hilo, HI. Plant #06-2374

    Codes: OCT 16

    Quantity: 75,566 units (half-pint per unit)

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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 December 10, 2025.

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.