{"id":117937,"date":"2026-02-19T11:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117937\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:05:30","slug":"fda-peanut-butter-recall-plastic-could-be-in-some-ventura-foods-single-serve-items-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117937\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA peanut butter recall: Plastic could be in some Ventura Foods single-serve items, agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The Food and Drug Administration updated an existing peanut butter recall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">More than 22,000 affected single-serve products were distributed to 40 states, including New Jersey and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They include both peanut butter packets and small cups containing both peanut butter and jelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The products were produced by Ventura Foods and sold to distributors, mostly under private label brands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the FDA, pieces of blue plastic were found in a filter at the facility where they are made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FDA&#8217;s new designation for the recall is Class 2, meaning consuming the product could cause temporary illness, but not likely anything serious or life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The recall was initiated in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">To see the full list of serial numbers,<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/index.cfm?Event=96817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The Food and Drug Administration updated an existing peanut butter recall. More than 22,000 affected single-serve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55967,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-117937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-55967","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}