If you eat a lot of potato chips and you also have a deadly allergy to milk, take note:
Frito-Lay is recalling 13-ounce bags of its Lay's Classic Potato Chips due to fears that they "may contain undeclared milk" that can pose a 'risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction' to consumers, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
'Those with an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the recalled product,' the FDA said in a notice that was posted on Monday.
Milk? In potato chips?
How exactly do you get any amount of milk near a batch of deep-fried potato slices? Was someone just walking by the vat while drinking a carton of the stuff?
The strange recall was made even more odd by the FDA's phrasing of how it discovered the error: The company said it was recalling the chips after being alerted to "a limited number of 13 oz. bags of Lay's Classic Potato Chips that may contain undeclared milk, after being alerted through a consumer contact."
Did someone just, like, taste a bit of milk on a chip and call it in? How does that work?
Who knows! Well, thankfully, the recall only applies "to retailers in Oregon and Washington state," and to date "there have been no allergic reactions reported, according to the FDA."
Very glad this milk-chip crisis is limited in scope!
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