Costco has been forced to recall some 80,000 pounds of perfectly good, usable, nothing-at-all-wrong-with-it butter after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cracked down on the product label, which apparently failed to mention that the butter sticks “contain milk.”
IT’S BUTTER.
The FDA sent out the recall for both Kirkland Signature unsalted and salted butter sticks back in October, noting that while the packaging label mentioned that the butter “contains cream,” it didn’t specify that it “contains milk,” and therefore didn’t fall within the FDA’s allergen notification guidelines. (The ingredients listed "cream," but not "milk," specifically.)
Which is perhaps the most idiotic thing I’ve read in a while - which is saying something, to be honest - considering that all butter is made directly from milk, and milk is what makes cream.
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Now, nearly 80,000 pounds of butter will go to waste, for no good reason other than the bloated bureaucratic blimp that is the FDA had too many taxpayer-funded employees with nothing better to do than pore over Costco labels. In fact, news articles have been published telling people how to safely dispose of the evil milk-butter - which, again, has nothing wrong with it other than the FDA doesn't like the wording on the little paper box it comes in.
All I can say is, if you need the government to tell you that butter contains milk, I can’t help you, and I’m not sure clearly marked labels can, either.