🇺🇸nationwide recall of ritz cracker sandwiches due to mislabeling peanut butter as cheese🇺🇸
while the outside of the recalled cartons all mention that the contents contain peanut butter somewhere, the individually wrapped "cheese" flavored sandwiches inside the box may actually be peanut butter.
I (rune) really recommend this FDA link be shared in school and parent groups, because kids might share their snacks.
yes these are the full resolution photos provided by the FDA.
Mondelēz Global LLC announced today a voluntary recall of four carton sizes of RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches (8-pack, 20-pack, and 4
EAST HANOVER, N.J., July 8, 2025 – Mondelēz Global LLC announced today a voluntary recall of four carton sizes of RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches (8-pack, 20-pack, and 40pack cartons of RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches, as well as the 20-pack RITZ Filled Cracker Sandwich Variety Pack carton) manufactured in the United States and sold nationwide. The affected cartons include individually wrapped packs that may be incorrectly labeled as Cheese variety even though the product may be a Peanut Butter variety. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to peanuts may risk serious or life-threatening allergic reactions by consuming this product.
All outer cartons affected are labeled correctly and provide an allergen advisory statement indicating that the product “contains peanuts.”
alright so say you have a box of RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches. the outside correctly says you have a box with peanut butter filled sandwiches that contain peanuts somewhere. (but that somewhere might be a surprise.) you reach your hand in to acquire a peanut buttery snack. and the one you pull out says: CHEESE
...even though you actually have a peanut butter cracker sandwich.
part of what makes this specific situation way fucking worse than it already was is that this labeling error also affects variety packs that contain both peanut butter and cheese flavored cracker sandwiches. it is a little easier to tell some kind of mistake was made if you buy a peanut butter-only carton and pull out something that says cheese. but if someone gets sick from eating the peanut butter flavor and not the cheese flavor, and they reach into a multipack that says it contains the cheese flavored cracker sandwiches, they might accidentally eat the peanut butter flavor and get very very sick.
and of course, people sharing their snacks with others with no box in sight might accidentally give a cheese-labeled peanut butter cracker sandwich to someone who can handle a cheese cracker sandwich and not a peanut butter cracker sandwich. because it says CHEESE!
This recall is exclusively for the 8-pack, 20-pack, and 40-pack RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwich cartons and the 20-pack RITZ Filled Cracker Sandwich Variety Pack carton, with Best When Used By Dates listed in the grid below, available at retail stores nationwide. No other RITZ products or Mondelēz Global LLC products are included in, or affected by, this recall.
and tumblr still will not let me do tables so I am going to do my best to format this for tumblr.
recalled items:
11.4 oz. RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches 8 Count (8 x 1.38-oz. 6-pack carton)
retail UPC: 0 44000 88210 5
best when used by dates: 1 NOV 25-9 NOV 25, “AE” Plant Code Only (located on top of package)
27.6 oz. RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches 20 Count (20 x 1.38-oz. 6-pack carton)
retail UPC: 0 44000 07584 2
best when used by dates: 1 NOV 25-9 NOV 25, 2 JAN 26-22 JAN 26; “AE” Plant Code Only (located on top of package)
55.2 oz. RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches – 40 Count (40 x 1.38-oz. 6-pack carton)
retail UPC: 0 44000 07819 5
best when used by dates: 1 NOV 25-9 NOV 25, 2 JAN 26-22 JAN 26; “AM” Plant Code Only (located on top of package)
27.3 oz. RITZ Filled Cracker Sandwich 20-Count Variety Pack (20 packs of 10 Cheese 1.38-oz. packs and 10 Peanut Butter 1.38-oz. packs)
retail UPC: 0 44000 08095 2
best when used by dates: 2 NOV 25–9 NOV 25, “RJ” Plant Code Only (located on top of package)
and the alleged cheese (but actually peanut butter) sandwiches may be labeled as such:
RITZ Cheese Cracker Sandwiches (1.38oz. pack)
retail UPC: 0 44000 00211 4
best when used by dates: 1 NOV 25–9 NOV 25, 2 JAN 26–22 JAN 26; “AE” Plant Code Only (located on side of package)
pictures of the recalled items and the mislabeled "cheese" sandwiches are at the top.
There have been no reports of injury or illness reported to Mondelēz Global LLC to date related to this product, and we are issuing this recall as a precaution.
The recall was initiated after Mondelēz Global LLC discovered that film packaging rolls used to package individually wrapped products containing peanut butter may contain defects due to a supplier error. Corrective actions are being taken to help ensure this issue does not recur.
emphasis entirely theirs.
someone is probably going to get sick because of this, but there have been no reports of that happening yet. the recall was issued before any reports were received. allegedly they are going to try and make sure this never happens again.
to be totally clear here: cartons only containing cheese flavored sandwiches are not being recalled. and only the listed items within those specific best by dates are being recalled. a limited number of peanut butter sandwiches were individually mislabeled as cheese. if you have zero issues with peanut butter or accidentally eating peanut butter, and there is no chance of someone who gets sick from peanut butter eating your ritz sandwiches: there is no significant danger.
but: if you or someone you know could get sick from eating a peanut butter cracker sandwich when anticipating a cheese cracker sandwich, that is where things get dangerous.
for more information, check out the recall announcement.
IMAGINE PUTTING LIKE 10 IN SOMEONE’S BATH AND THEY GET IN THEY JUST START FREAKING OUT BECAUSE ‘THERES SOMETHING TOUCHING ME BUT THERES NOTHING IN THE FUCKING WATER WHAT THE FUCK’ OMFG
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