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Hindustan Times
24-05-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Quaker Oats class action lawsuit settlement: Here's a list of products eligible for refunds
Quaker Oats has agreed to pay out $6.75 million to settle the lawsuit that claimed it misled consumers by selling some snacks and cereals as safe, although they were actually contaminated with salmonella. Notably, the lawsuit was filed after the recalls of several Quaker products in December 2023 and January 2024. Concerns led to the recall because several packages were produced at a facility that tested positive for salmonella. Quaker hasn't admitted to any wrongdoing, but it has agreed to a settlement. Now, if you purchased one or more of the recalled products, you may be eligible for a full or partial refund. ALSO READ| Obama divorce rumors ramp up after Michelle gets 'flirty' with billionaire: 'If I were single… With proof of purchase (such as receipts), you can receive a full refund of the recalled items you bought. Without proof, you can still get a refund for up to two products, based on average retail price, plus 10% for sales tax. If you have already received a reimbursement from Quaker, that amount will be deducted from your settlement. Deadline to submit a claim: June 27, 2025 Deadline to opt out or object: June 27, 2025 Final approval hearing: August 4, 2025 ALSO READ| US dad stumped by son's 5th grade math quiz, internet reacts to confusing homework Granola Bars & Dipps Quaker Big Chewy Bars (Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, Variety Pack) Quaker Chewy Bars (multiple flavors including Chocolate Chip, S'mores, Oatmeal Raisin, Less Sugar varieties, and holiday editions) Quaker Chewy Dipps (Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Variety Pack) Quaker Chewy Mini Dipps (Birthday Blast, Summer Night S'mores) Fruity Fun Granola Bars (Amazing Apple, Splendid Strawberry, Variety Pack) Yogurt Granola Bars (Strawberry, Blueberry, Variety Packs) Cereals Quaker Puffed Granola (Apple Cinnamon, Blueberry Vanilla) Quaker Simply Granola (Oats, Honey & Almonds; Oats, Honey, Raisins & Almonds) Quaker Protein Granola (Oats, Chocolate & Almonds) Quaker Oatmeal Squares (Cinnamon, Brown Sugar, Honey Nut, Variety Pack) Quaker Chewy Granola Breakfast Cereal (Chocolate, Strawberry, Variety Pack) Snack Packs & Mixes Quaker Chocolatey Favorites Snack Mix Quaker On The Go Snack Mix Frito-Lay & Quaker variety snack packs (including Lunch Box Mix, Snack Time Favorites, Ultimate Flavor Snack Care Package) Cap'n Crunch Products Cap'n Crunch Cereals (OOPS! All Berries, Cinnamon Crunch, Sea Berry Crunch) Cap'n Crunch Instant Oatmeal (Regular, OOPS! All Berries, Variety Pack) Cap'n Crunch Treats Bars (Crunch Berries, Peanut Butter Crunch, Original Crunch, Variety Pack) ALSO READ| Australian MP pours beer into his sneakers, drinks it. All about the drinking tradition Shoey Other Gatorade Protein Bars (Peanut Butter Chocolate) Gamesa Cereal (Gamesa Marias)
Scotsman
21-05-2025
- Health
- Scotsman
Fasten your seat belts as morning flights will be very grumpy
A better morning could mean a better flight. New research reveals an astonishing 67 per cent of British passengers admit they've boarded their flight feeling irritable or unwell. That figure rises to 79 per cent among 25-34-year-olds. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Many say it's because they've missed out on breakfast. With one in six (17 per cent) admitting to usually skipping the most important meal of the day before a flight, that's a lot of grumpy passengers. Missing breakfast is becoming an actual relationship issue, with over one in six say they've had a tense moment with their partner over their missed morning meals. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The study, commissioned by Heathrow Express, has also revealed rushing to catch an early flight can lead to many of us failing to keep to basic hygiene measures. Passengers boarding the new 4:34am Heathrow Express train - the earliest-ever service - were treated to a surprise breakfast from Quaker Oats and foodie TV personality David Templer One in four (28 per cent) admit they've skipped washing to make an early departure time, while one in six (16 per cent) have confessed to leaving the house without brushing their teeth. Meanwhile one in five (19 per cent) didn't even use the toilet before heading out the door. The research has been done to support the launch of Heathrow Express's new 4.34am departure from London Paddington – its earliest-ever train to Heathrow, running Monday to Saturday. Aoife Considine, business lead at Heathrow Express, says:We know early flights can turn mornings into a scramble, and that often means the important things – like breakfast – get pushed aside. By looking closely at how and when our passengers travel, we identified a clear need for earlier services to help reach 6am departures. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Our new 4.34am train is designed to make those early flights easier to catch. With just a 15-minute journey from Central London to Heathrow, it's a smarter, more efficient way to travel – so you can arrive calm, prepared, and with time to start your day right. The new earlier non-stop 15-minute connection between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport means you can make sure you are washed and fed before going on holiday or a business trip. With spacious seating, free Wi-Fi, and generous luggage space it's the fastest, smoothest, and most stress-free way to reach the airport. And to launch the new 4.34am service - and help passengers arrive better prepared for their flights - Heathrow Express provided them with an early breakfast treat. The airport rail link teamed up with Quaker and food-loving TV personality David Templer to offer passengers two exclusive oat-based breakfasts. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Templer explains: I'm always looking for ways to make life more efficient – and nothing says efficient like a 15-minute train to the airport and breakfast already sorted. These oat breakfasts were designed for those early starts when you're short on time but still want something that hits the spot – both nutritious and delicious.
South Wales Argus
20-05-2025
- South Wales Argus
Fasten your seatbelts, morning flights will be very grumpy
New research reveals an astonishing 67 per cent of British passengers admit they've boarded their flight feeling irritable or unwell. That figure rises to 79 per cent among 25-34-year-olds. Many say it's because they've missed out on breakfast. With one in six (17 per cent) admitting to usually skipping the most important meal of the day before a flight, that's a lot of grumpy passengers. Missing breakfast is becoming an actual relationship issue, with over one in six say they've had a tense moment with their partner over their missed morning meals. Passengers boarding the new 4:34am Heathrow Express train - the earliest-ever service - were treated to a surprise breakfast from Quaker Oats and foodie TV personality David Templer (Image: Jack Hall / Cover Images) The study, commissioned by Heathrow Express, has also revealed rushing to catch an early flight can lead to many of us failing to keep to basic hygiene measures. One in four (28 per cent) admit they've skipped washing to make an early departure time, while one in six (16 per cent) have confessed to leaving the house without brushing their teeth. Meanwhile one in five (19 per cent) didn't even use the toilet before heading out the door. The research has been done to support the launch of Heathrow Express's new 4:34am departure from London Paddington – its earliest-ever train to Heathrow, running Monday to Saturday. Aoife Considine, Business Lead at Heathrow Express, says: 'We know early flights can turn mornings into a scramble, and that often means the important things – like breakfast – get pushed aside. "By looking closely at how and when our passengers travel, we identified a clear need for earlier services to help reach 6am departures. Our new 4:34am train is designed to make those early flights easier to catch. "With just a 15-minute journey from Central London to Heathrow, it's a smarter, more efficient way to travel – so you can arrive calm, prepared, and with time to start your day right.' The new earlier non-stop 15-minute connection between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport means you can make sure you are washed and fed before going on holiday or a business trip. With spacious seating, free Wi-Fi, and generous luggage space it's the fastest, smoothest, and most stress-free way to reach the airport. And to launch the new 4:34am service - and help passengers arrive better prepared for their flights - Heathrow Express provided them with an early breakfast treat. The airport rail link teamed up with Quaker and food-loving TV personality David Templer to offer passengers two exclusive oat-based breakfasts. Templer explains: 'I'm always looking for ways to make life more efficient – and nothing says efficient like a 15-minute train to the airport and breakfast already sorted. These oat breakfasts were designed for those early starts when you're short on time but still want something that hits the spot – both nutritious and delicious.' Provided aboard was a Tropical Oat Bowl made with chilled overnight oats, coconut milk, pineapple, mango, and passionfruit – finished with toasted coconut, chia seeds, and a squeeze of lime, and Mexican Mocha Energy Balls blended with dates, cocoa, espresso, cinnamon, cayenne, and dark chocolate.
Globe and Mail
19-05-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
2 Monster Stocks to Hold for the Next 10 Years
Consumer staples companies sell things that people tend to buy regardless of the economic environment and stock market dynamics. They are looked at as safe-haven investments for that reason. But two of the industry's best-known companies are struggling today and, if you think long term, that is likely to be a buying opportunity. Here's why these two monster food stocks are buy-and-hold investments for the next decade. 1. PepsiCo is the snack king PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) is named after its famous soda brand. Beverages are a very important business, but the company is the No. 2 player in the beverage industry. It is the No. 1 company in salty snacks, however, with its Frito-Lay brand. It also has a material packaged food business in Quaker Oats. All in, it is one of the most diversified consumer staples food companies you can buy, with strong innovation, distribution, and marketing skills. And still the company's business, like all others, goes through good times and bad. Right now, PepsiCo is facing bad times, with top-line growth cooling after a spurt of inflation-driven growth coming out of the coronavirus pandemic. Frito-Lay is also facing some headwinds as snacking trends appear to be changing. This isn't the first time PepsiCo has dealt with adversity over the last 53 years. That's how long it has increased its dividend, proving that this Dividend King knows how to survive. You have to have a good business model that gets executed well in both good times and bad to achieve a dividend record like that. The key today is that PepsiCo isn't sitting around idle, hoping for things to change. It is focused on cutting costs, improving efficiencies, and adjusting its mix to better appeal to consumers. That last point includes everything from changing the size of its packages to buying entire companies, like Siete, which makes Mexican-American fare, and Poppi, which makes probiotic beverages. Siete and Poppi are on-trend brands that will benefit from being plugged into PepsiCo's powerful distribution system. It may take a few years for PepsiCo to work through to better days. But with a historically high 4.4% dividend yield, investors are being paid very well to wait it out. 2. Hershey is a confectionary giant While Hershey (NYSE: HSY) isn't the largest consumer staples company around, it is the U.S. leader in the confections space. You almost certainly know its namesake brand and its powerful Reese's franchise. While it doesn't have the same Dividend King status as PepsiCo, Hershey's dividend has trended steadily higher over time. The dividend yield is a historically high 3.4% or so today. The big problem facing Hershey right now is an astonishing rise in cocoa prices. Cocoa, a somewhat volatile commodity even during the best of times, is a key input into chocolate. The rising costs for cocoa will be a major headwind to margins in the near term. Investors have dumped the stock because of the high cocoa prices it is facing. There's no quick fix here, given the nature of the cocoa market (cocoa comes from trees, which take time to grow). So the issue could linger. What hasn't changed, however, is Hershey's dominant industry position, or its plans to grow by acquiring non-chocolate confection businesses and salty snack brands. The key to this long-term approach, however, is couched in the fact that The Hershey Trust, a charitable organization, basically has voting control of Hershey the company. This means that Hershey the company can think long term even when Wall Street is thinking short term because The Hershey Trust desires a reliable and growing dividend to support its philanthropic efforts. That's probably what you want, too, but to support your spending needs in retirement. If you don't mind collecting a lofty dividend yield from a confectionary giant, waiting for Hershey to muddle through the current cocoa headwinds could be for you. PepsiCo and Hershey are two monster dividend stocks The average consumer staples stock yields around 2.5% today. Both PepsiCo and Hershey provide way more income. And while they each face specific business headwinds that have left them out of favor with investors, each company remains a giant in the niches where they compete. If you think in decades and not days when you buy dividend stocks, PepsiCo and Hershey should be on your buy list today. Should you invest $1,000 in Hershey right now? Before you buy stock in Hershey, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Hershey wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The Biggest Recalls In PepsiCo History
PepsiCo makes a lot more than just soda. This probably isn't news to you, but if it is, the cola giant owns nearly two dozen food and drink brands, including Starbucks bottled beverages and Quaker Oats. When a parent brand churns out as many different products as PepsiCo does, major recalls are bound to happen. Some of PepsiCo's recalls have been so big, they left lasting impacts on the food and beverage industry. Pepsi-Cola, as it was originally known, has been around since 1898. It spent the first half of the 20th century trying to keep up with its ultimate competitor: Coca-Cola. After a 1965 merger with chip king Frito-Lay, Pepsi officially became PepsiCo. The move helped Pepsi gain a foothold in the prepackaged snack space and has held steady ever since. The amount of PepsiCo recalls isn't excessive for a company of its size, but the frequency of recalls in the food and cosmetics industry has increased between 20 to 25% in the last three years, making PepsiCo vulnerable. These are the biggest recalls the company has had to face in its long and prominent history. Read more: Soda Myths You Probably Believed In 2024, labeling errors accounted for almost half of the food recalls in the U.S. PepsiCo's Mug Root Beer was part of that statistic. The company announced a voluntary recall for 12-pack cans of Mug in March 2024 because what was actually in those cans was Mug Zero Sugar. The mislabeled 12-packs were distributed in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The FDA terminated the recall one month later, after a total of 2,801 cases of Mug Root Beer were pulled from circulation. That's 33,612 cans of root beer. Adding insult to injury was the fact that PepsiCo had to recall its Schweppes Ginger Ale in a nearly identical mixup two weeks before recalling Mug. In the Schweppes scenario, 5,592 cans, packed in 24-count cases were labeled as Zero Sugar Ginger Ale but contained the full-sugar version. Both situations posed a particular risk to soda consumers who need to monitor their blood sugar. The 2024 labeling mishap wasn't the first time Mug was on the FDA's bad side. In 2003, PepsiCo had to recall cans of Mug that came from a bottling plant in Burnsville, Minnesota. Why? It was a similar story. The Mug Diet Root Beer cans were filled with full-sugar soda. When PepsiCo acquired the Quaker Oats brand in 2001 in a $13.8 billion deal, it took on a centuries-old heritage brand so large, the deal required clearance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). At the time, PepsiCo was willing to spend big on Quaker just to acquire Gatorade, which held 80% of the sports drink market. Along with Gatorade came Quaker's scroll of cereal products. Two decades later, some of those cereal products would wind up contributing to one of the most epic recalls in PepsiCo's history. On December 15, 2023, Quaker recalled approximately 40 products, primarily granola bars, granola cereal, and snack packs, because they were potentially tainted with salmonella bacteria. By January 11, 2024, the recall was expanded to include more granola bar flavors, Cap'n Crunch cereal bars, Quaker and Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal, Gatorade Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars, and other snack mixes. When the recall expanded a second time on January 31, 2024 it affected more than 60 products. All of the at-risk inventory came from a PepsiCo manufacturing plant in Danville, Illinois. When the FDA inspected the Danville plant, Salmonella Cubana was found in multiple places throughout the plant. The inspectors also observed an unsanitary environment rife with health code violations. The Quaker recalls caused a volume loss of around 22%, and PepsiCo was not pleased. By June of 2024, PepsiCo shut the Danville plant down for good. Tostitos is typically a source of pride and joy for Frito-Lay, and in turn, PepsiCo. That wasn't the case in June 2023 when the Tostitos Avocado Salsa Dip was recalled en masse. Avocado Salsa (which is basically jarred guacamole) was one of the newer varieties in Tostitos' dip arsenal — it debuted in February 2020 — and people were into it. The troubling recall, which was triggered by an undeclared allergen, was a threat to Avocado Salsa's nascent existence. Fans of the Tostitos Avocado Salsa loved that it was both creamy and full of veggies. According to the ingredients list on the back of the jar, that creaminess wasn't supposed to be brought to you by dairy milk ... but it was. During production, thousands of Avocado Salsa jars were fitted with a nutritional back label intended for a different type of Tostitos dip. This made the ingredients list on the Avocado Salsa jars completely inaccurate. The mislabeled jars did not list milk as an ingredient, thereby posing a major health risk to consumers with dairy allergies or sensitivities. If someone with a severe milk allergy consumes dairy, it could cause anaphylaxis, an allergic reaction that restricts the body's airways and can cause death. In view of this risk, the FDA wasn't playing around and designated the Tostitos recall as Class I. When the recall was initiated, the mislabeled Avocado Salsa had been in stores nationwide for two months. The recall quantity accounted for 94,668 pounds of Avocado Salsa. PepsiCo has been bottling coffee drinks for Starbucks since 1994, when the two corporations teamed up to form the North American Coffee Partnership (NACP). The deal helped Starbucks break into the retail drink market in a major way and brought in a ton of business for PepsiCo. Since PepsiCo owns several industrial plants in the U.S., it was responsible for bottling and canning the coffee drinks. In January 2023, quality control issues on PepsiCo's end triggered a massive recall of Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino bottled coffee after pieces of glass were found inside some bottles. The Class II recall made 25,200 cases of Vanilla Frappuccino bottled coffee unfit for consumption — that's equivalent to 302,400 bottles. The FDA didn't terminate the recall until July 20, 2023. PepsiCo kept a tight-lipped stance on the recall details. How the glass pieces found their way into over 300,000 bottles of product was never reported, and no injuries associated with the foreign contaminant were disclosed either. In February 2023, PepsiCo gave a statement to The Independent saying the company would "always act with an abundance of caution whenever a potential concern is raised." In 2024, PepsiCo announced it was shuttering four of its bottling plants. The decision resulted in hundreds of employees losing their jobs. It's unclear whether the Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino bottled coffee catastrophe was partly a catalyst for the closures. With PepsiCo's help, Starbucks has developed a lot of successful bottled and canned coffee drinks, but the production process of said beverages has had its share of problems. An August 2022 recall for Starbucks French Vanilla Espresso Tripleshot was one of those times. PepsiCo announced a recall for the 15-ounce cans because there was a chance that metal fragments had gotten inside. Potentially afflicted cans of Starbucks French Vanilla Espresso Tripleshot were pulled from the market in Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. In total, PepsiCo recalled 221 cases of Starbucks French Vanilla Espresso Tripleshot, or 2,652 cans. The FDA gave the recall a Class II designation due to the significant risk of choking or dental injury that might occur from drinking metal fragments. Thankfully, there were no reported injuries associated with the recall. The recall was terminated on November 8, 2022, but for PepsiCo and Starbucks, poor performance on the production line was becoming a repeat problem. Starbucks and PepsiCo have a seemingly unbreakable bond operating as NACP, but this power couple has its flaws. In September 2021, the partnership initiated a mammoth recall for three varieties of Starbucks' popular Doubleshot Espresso cans. The cans were recalled due to a sealing defect that made the product vulnerable to premature spoilage. The quality issue affected 6.5-ounce cans of Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso and Cream, Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso and Light Cream, and Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso and Salted Caramel Cream. A single lot of each Doubleshot variety was recalled, and each one included 85,956 cases. In all, 257,868 Doubleshot cases were taken off the market as part of the massive recall. The Doubleshot cans were sold nationwide. All consumers who purchased the compromised product were encouraged to return it to the place of purchase for a refund. Considering the sheer volume of Doubleshot cans recalled, it was a stroke of luck for Starbucks and PepsiCo that there were no reported illnesses linked to this recall. To this day, it remains the biggest recall in NACP's history. In the spring of 2020, worldwide lockdowns caused by COVID-19 reminded us how essential grocery stores really are — they remained open all throughout the pandemic. At a time when consumers were relying on store-bought food more than ever, PepsiCo suffered one of the biggest product recalls in its history. On May 4, 2020 Frito-Lay recalled multiple varieties of Ranch Dip and Onion Dip sold under the Lay's and Ruffles brands due to mold contamination. The Class II recall quantity totaled 6,344,323 pounds. The potentially moldy jars of Lay's Smooth Ranch Dip and French Onion Dip were sold in the U.S. The recalled jars of Ruffles Ranch Dip and Onion Dip were sold in Canada. The production numbers involved were huge. For the Lay's Smooth Ranch Dip alone, a total of 2,997,108 jars were implicated in the recall. Despite the recall's staggering weight, PepsiCo didn't issue a press release detailing the situation. Since PepsiCo (and the FDA for that matter) kept the issue discrete and no cases of mold sickness were reported, there was little to no media coverage about it. At the time, tense grocery shopping trips marked by long lines and low stock were the expectation, so many shoppers may have assumed the dips' absence was COVID-related. Either way, PepsiCo was able to scrap a behemoth amount of dip from store shelves and hardly anyone noticed. When an April 2019 recall pulled a huge amount of Diet Pepsi from circulation, the loyalty of PepsiCo's sugar-free cola drinkers was tested. The recall pertained to mislabeled Diet Pepsi cans. While the outer packaging indicated that the Diet Pepsi contains Aspartame, the cans themselves were labeled Aspartame-free. Six-packs, 12-packs, 20-packs, 24-packs, and 36-packs of Diet Pepsi were subject to the recall. Before the error was caught, 9,214 cases of mislabeled Diet Pepsi were shipped to Southern California with intent for larger distribution. Selling the inconsistently labeled cans would have undoubtedly caused confusion amongst consumers (at least for those who read both packaging labels), but that wasn't the only reason for PepsiCo's recall. Federal law requires food and beverage manufacturers to list all the ingredients it adds to products sold to the public. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener commonly added to diet sodas and some people purposely avoid it. Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is limited evidence that aspartame causes cancer in humans, the popular sugar substitute has been beleaguered by its carcinogen reputation for decades. Aspartame's inclusion in sugar-free foods and drinks has been the subject of many class action lawsuits — including one against Diet Pepsi in 2017. Consumers with a rare congenital disorder called phenylketonuria (PKU) are more acutely vulnerable to accidental aspartame consumption. PKU prevents the body from breaking down phenylalanine, an amino acid in aspartame, significantly increasing the risk of phenylalanine toxicity. Zesty, wavy, and multigrain, Frito-Lay's SunChips have long occupied an enviable niche in the uber-competitive chip business. SunChips debuted in 1991 and have enjoyed a solid fan base ever since. Years of brand trust allowed SunChips to expand its flavor portfolio, and in 2012, it introduced Six Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic. The six grains present were corn, wheat, oats, brown rice, buckwheat, and quinoa. The SunChips Six Grain medley chips also came in a Parmesan and Herb flavor. By February 2013, the Creamy Roasted Garlic version of Six Grain Medley SunChips was recalled, but the recall was still pretty huge. Frito-Lay recalled the Creamy Roasted Garlic SunChips over concerns that they were contaminated with pieces of metal mesh. The voluntary recall resulted in 13,812 cases being withdrawn from the retail market. The suspicious Six Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic SunChips were sold in grocery stores, food service establishments, and vending machines nationwide. The metal mesh ordeal wasn't just Frito-Lay's cross to bear. The SunChips recall was part of a larger recall that stemmed from Dakota Specialty Milling, Frito Lay's grain supplier. Dakota Milling announced a recall on February 14, 2013 of its specialty flour and grain blends because metal mesh had contaminated their manufacturing process. The mesh came from a defective metal screen that was present on the production line. The foreign contaminant was responsible for nine secondary recalls, Frito-Lay's among them. Frito-Lay is the current owner of Grandma's cookies, but the company was originally established in 1914. With more than a century of cookie-baking under its belt, Grandma's knows its way around the most classic flavors: chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin and the like. Grandma's is no stranger to sandwich cookies either, Sandwich Creme Vanilla and Sandwich Creme Peanut Butter Cookies have been part of the brand's repertoire for years. In November 2012, Grandma's Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies were at the center of a big recall for undeclared ingredients. Packages of Grandma's Sandwich Creme Peanut Butter Cookies and Peanut Butter Mini Sandwich Cremes Cookies were named in the recall. None of Grandma's other cookie flavors were affected. The FDA categorizes milk and egg as major allergens and requires all pre-packaged food and drink items that use these ingredients to print an allergen warning on the label. The labeling error that prompted the recall affected 156,462 pounds of Grandma's Sandwich Creme Peanut Butter Cookies nationwide. Peanut Butter Mini Sandwich Cremes Cookies are no longer available to purchase. In the 20th century, food and drink recalls were nowhere near as frequent as they are now, so when they did happen, it rarely escaped public notice. The lead-up to PepsiCo's Lemon Lime Slice recall in 1986 was equal parts alarming and bizarre. Soda drinkers in the New York City metropolitan area were on high alert that July after an anonymous male called 911 and informed police that he had contaminated Pepsi bottles with cyanide. The caller even disclosed the lot number for the products that were targeted. Seeing as the caller's description of "Pepsi bottles" was vague, authorities honed in on the lot number information. The lot that matched the number the closest implicated 66,000 bottles of Lemon Lime Slice. All of them were recalled. Charles Thomas, who was vice-president of Pepsi-Cola at the time issued a statement to the New York Times, assuring that ''about 7,000 of the 11,000 cases are under lock and key.'' The precaution proved to be a crucial one. No known cyanide poisonings occurred after the threat was made. That same year, PepsiCo acquired lemon-lime soda brand 7UP and Lemon Lime Slice faded into obscurity. "Grandma, tell me about when 2-liter glass bottles of Pepsi used to explode into people's faces and necks," isn't an oft-requested nostalgic tale -- but it did happen in the '70s. Back then, Pepsi began enhancing the volume of its bottles to meet consumer demand. Two-liter bottles were a common sight at grocery stores toward the late 1970s, but they were made of glass and shattered without warning. The large glass soda bottles couldn't withstand the pressure created by the soda's carbonation, so they exploded. Two-liter Pepsi bottles were the first to be introduced in the U.S. in 1978, and they were part of the problem. A high profile case in Canada kickstarted the recall of plus-sized glass soda bottles. A 3-year-old boy got caught in the crossfire of a soda explosion and was permanently blinded in one eye. Following the incident, a Canadian engineer named David Barham began studying large soda bottles from various brands. He observed that more often than not, the bottles burst if tipped over. Barham's findings led to a recommendation that 1.5-liter and 2-liter soda bottles be recalled. When the Canadian Soft Drink Association gave pushback, Barham went on national television and demonstrated how easily the bottles exploded when gently knocked over. Public outcry from disturbed viewers ultimately pushed the government to issue a recall. In the Toronto area alone, 50,000 cases were pulled from shelves. A permanent solution was ushered out soon after. The bottles became plastic. Read the original article on Mashed.
