Hot pockets are in hot water.
More than 762,000 pounds of Hot Pockets were withdrawn this month due to “possible foreign matter contamination.” Specifically, frozen snacks potentially contained the extremely unwanted surprise ingredients of glass and hard plastic.
Nestlé Prepared Foods recalled the more than half a million pounds of Hot Pockets after determining they could have been contaminated with “foreign materials, specifically pieces of glass and hard plastic,” the Department’s Food Inspection and Safety Service announced Friday of U.S. Agriculture.
The problem was discovered after no less than four consumers contacted Nestlé to report that they had made the unpleasant understanding that their pepperoni Hot Pockets contained inedible substances. One person reported a “minor oral injury” related to the consumption of the contaminated pocket.
The withdrawn products, which have an expiration date of February 2022, contain 12 hot pockets “top quality pepperoni with pork pizza, chicken and garlic veal”, are in 54-ounce cardboard packages and include the codes lots 0318544624, 0319544614, 0320544614 and 0321544614.
If you are unlucky enough to have purchased the product, FSIS recommends that you dispose of it or return it to the place of purchase.
Nestlé’s Hot Pocket withdrawal follows the company’s December withdrawal of approximately 92,206 pounds of Lean Cuisine, specifically the baked chicken flavor, also due to possible hard plastic contamination.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this month the removal of 11,371 containers of Weis Markets ice cream for having been “contaminated with foreign material, specifically pieces of filling equipment from metals ”. This memory also followed an ice cream that made an unwanted discovery in his food.
There has been a report from a customer who discovered a piece of metal equipment intact in Weis Quality Cookies and Cream Ice Cream cookies, ”the FDA wrote. “We are concerned that there is additional equipment present in the ice cream product (s) that may present a choking hazard”