{"id":495965,"date":"2026-06-26T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495965\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:05:10","slug":"nz-muscle-recall-multiple-creatine-products-pulled-from-shelves-food-safety-nz-investigating-social-media-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495965\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Muscle recall: Multiple creatine products pulled from shelves, Food Safety NZ investigating social media complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Muscle<\/p>\n<p>NZ Muscle Creatine (Unflavoured) (200g) Date mark: B\/B JUN27NZ Muscle Creatine (Unflavoured) (500g) Date mark: B\/B JUN27NZ Muscle Creatine (Unflavoured) (1kg) Date mark: B\/B JUN27<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">No Brand<\/p>\n<p>No Brand Creatine Monohydrate 200g, Date mark: B\/B JUN27No Brand Creatine Monohydrate 500g, Date mark: B\/B JUN27No Brand Creatine Monohydrate 1kg, Date mark: B\/B JUN27<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The affected products have been removed from store shelves, but a small quantity was also sent to Australia as personal imports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">New Zealand Food Safety has not been alerted to any allergic reactions associated with the product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone who has consumed any of the affected batches and is concerned about their health is advised to contact a health professional or call Healthline on 0800 611 116 for free advice.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The two products may contain an undeclared milk allergen. Photo \/ MPI\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The two products may contain an undeclared milk allergen. Photo \/ MPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFood safety officers are investigating NZ Muscle following complaints. Our focus right now is to ensure that consumers are protected and affected product is efficiently removed from the supply chain,\u201d Inglis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs is our usual practice, we will work with the company to understand how the problem occurred and prevent its recurrence. We will also be looking at other allegations made about this business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier this week, NZ Muscle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/nz-muscle-pulls-protein-and-creatine-supplements-after-review\/OFYZU2QW4ZDPBOTAXKYVML43KQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/nz-muscle-pulls-protein-and-creatine-supplements-after-review\/OFYZU2QW4ZDPBOTAXKYVML43KQ\/\">removed several key products<\/a> from sale after finding they had \u201cnon-compliant packing\u201d, prompted by a YouTube video that raised concerns about the company\u2019s labelling processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Inglis said Food Safety New Zealand is continuing to investigate a number of other social media complaints about the brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs this is an ongoing matter, we are unable to go into detail about this work at this stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhere we identify issues, we will take necessary action to protect consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Muscle NZ Muscle Creatine (Unflavoured) (200g) Date mark: B\/B JUN27NZ Muscle Creatine (Unflavoured) (500g) Date mark: B\/B&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56066,4463,30701,10709,55141,1146,564,71,17709,661,1073,19332,2510,12942,111,43,139,69,1523,3383,26525,24178,23840,6302,13109,100,1072,24562,8229,37602],"class_list":["post-495965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-allergen","tag-brand","tag-complaints","tag-concerns","tag-contain","tag-creatine","tag-food","tag-from","tag-investigating","tag-major","tag-media","tag-milk","tag-multiple","tag-muscle","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-products","tag-pulled","tag-recall","tag-recalled","tag-safety","tag-several","tag-shelves","tag-social","tag-supplement","tag-they","tag-undeclared"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}