Lean Cuisine: Did emergency button spark recall?
Lean Cuisine spaghetti and meatballs is recalled after five customers find plastic pieces in Lean Cuisine packages.
Nestlé is recalling more than 17,000 packages of Lean Cuisine spaghetti and meatballs because pieces of plastic, perhaps from a broken emergency stop button, were found in a few packages.
Courtesy of US Department of Agriculture
Nestlé is recalling a small amount of Lean Cuisine food because pieces of red plastic were found inside packages by five consumers.
The red plastic appears to be from an emergency stop button, the company says. And that’s something of a mystery, because Nestle’s plant in Gaffney, S.C., which produced the recalled packages, had no reports of a broken button. Also, the plant was designed so that no emergency-stop button would be near areas where food was in transit.
“We’re continuing our investigation,” says Roz O’Hearn, a spokeswoman at Nestlé USA in Solon, Ohio. “If it were an emergency stop button, we've got about half of it.”
That is why Nestlé is recalling an hour’s worth of production of its Lean Cuisine Simple Favorites Spaghetti with Meatballs and urging consumers to check their freezers.
