OAK BROOK, Ill., Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS) is voluntarily recalling certain frozen waffle products listed below due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal
Talk about making it hard to find the details. Neither the FDA nor the NPR article has the list of products in it. I finally found the list by using the link to the manufacturer website in the NPR article. Both the NPR article and the FDA website look like they copy and pasted the manufacturers press release and left off the only important piece of info in it.
Edit: weirdly the treehouse foods article list this as the original. This recall is seriously weird, with the linked PDF going through an ad tracking affiliate link and ultimately ending in a broken link.
Also: it’s wild how many brands are just outsourced to these folks. It’s got to all be the same waffles, right? But I know the price difference between some of these brands is a stark one.
It’s mostly the same. For the cheap ones, they might skip a QC process and ship defective ones, or boxes that have the wrong number of waffles.
For really big manufacturers, they might do runs with cheaper ingredients. But most just do continuous runs with the same stuff and cut costs elsewhere.
Talk about making it hard to find the details. Neither the FDA nor the NPR article has the list of products in it. I finally found the list by using the link to the manufacturer website in the NPR article. Both the NPR article and the FDA website look like they copy and pasted the manufacturers press release and left off the only important piece of info in it.
Edit: weirdly the treehouse foods article list this as the original. This recall is seriously weird, with the linked PDF going through an ad tracking affiliate link and ultimately ending in a broken link.
Thanks for linking something actionable!
Also: it’s wild how many brands are just outsourced to these folks. It’s got to all be the same waffles, right? But I know the price difference between some of these brands is a stark one.
It’s mostly the same. For the cheap ones, they might skip a QC process and ship defective ones, or boxes that have the wrong number of waffles.
For really big manufacturers, they might do runs with cheaper ingredients. But most just do continuous runs with the same stuff and cut costs elsewhere.