Yep you did. They have recalled 80,000 lbs of butter. Apparently it lists cream as an ingredient but it does not say "Contains Milk" on the package. It was a labelling error.

It does sound a little ridiculous but milk is a known allergan and reaction, if you are lactose intolerant or have Celiac, can be severe.

There are fake butters out there that won't label Contains Milk and so if it isn't stated on the label many may assume that it is dairy free. (even if it says cream on the package)

ETA - On my jar of Kraft Peanut Butter the first ingredient listed is peanuts. If there was a labelling error and it was missed there would be a massive recall of Kraft Peanut Butter.

speechless. but then again, if someone has a milk allergy and is not aware that butter will contain it, I guess this is life saving info??????????

Whatever. Rules are rules, and there was a labelling error. Hopefully they can donate the butter to food kitchens, etc.

TV, the food pantry where I volunteer wouldn't be able to accept it, because we're required to have the same labeling as stores. I don't know if food kitchens would have the same restrictions, but I'm guessing they would to ensure cooks from different shifts don't use the wrong ingredient. Hoping Costco can relabel ...

" TV, the food pantry where I volunteer wouldn't be able to accept it, because we're required to have the same labeling as stores "

The food rescue group I volunteered with had social service agencies, including some kitchens, that could take wrongly labelled (or even unlabelled) food, as well as food past its "best before" date. The only ones that couldn't were the ones in schools.

Different rules in different locations, I guess.

Could the stores just place a sticker on the front? "CONTAINS MILK"

' Stupid Government oversight!! "

You think consumer protections like accurate and truthful labelling is stupid?

Lord save you all.

The stupidity here was distributing the butter without proper labelling; it's an error that they should have caught before it was sent to stores.

Could the stores just place a sticker on the front? "CONTAINS MILK"

Good idea. But perhaps they do not want to rely on the store adding a label to each and every package.

WOOT WOOT

Despite how I feel about many of your comments, I dearly hope that neither you nor your family (or anyone) suffers from a mislabelling error that leads to a severe consequence.

Wish Houzz had the “hide posts from specific people” feature that FB offers.

@carabubble Yes, please! And Nextdoor has their ’mute’ button function. Some of you may recall the cartoon Pogo - “We have met the enemy and he is us” Seems somehow fitting again these days

I don't believe it will go to waste. A wholesale food liquidator will buy it for pennies on the dollar and sell it to someone, and could be me. They mayl stick a "contains milk" sticker on it and then sell it to retail discount food stores for 20 cents to 30 cents on the dollar, who will sell it to ME for 60 cents to 70 cents on the dollar. I have two discount stores close by and will be watching their Facebook pages for the new arrival of Kirkland butter for $3/lb, if I'm lucky $2/lb.

Cream is milk. So do cream containers have to be labeled as containing milk also? This is beyond ridiculous.

I had to go out to the garage refrigerator and look. There are two 4# packages Kirkland butter in it - we go through a lot of butter this time of year. Mine say Milk in ingredients. I have two containers cream in my kitchen refrigerator and those (different brands) both list 'Milk'.

I don't know if it could be resold or not

I was in the grocery store one year when I happened across a flustered friend. She had picked up her special order organic turkey of a particular size, got it home and realized it was not precisely the size she had been specific about AND - it had someone elses name on it. She took it back. They gave her (no additional cost) her correct turkey and told her to keep the first one, saying once it had left the store premises they could not resell it. It had been away from the store all of an hour and still wrapped.

I’m having a midafternoon snack right now of peanuts. Right under the ”ingredients” (peanuts, salt), it reads ”contains: peanut”. Then, ”may contain: tree nuts”

It does seem overboard. But I get it. It has to be easy to find. If a product has a long list of ingredients, the allergens can be missed. When I was a band mom, and managed the football night dinners and other meals, we had to be sure we kept the allergies in mind. I learned a lot!

Is much of the ’over informing’ - for lack of a better term - a result of our overly litigious society? Something goes wrong, an accident happens & the injured party is filing suit. I was thinking too of the warnings on plastic bags ”This bag is not a toy”….no kidding?

@ carabubble - agree 👍

" Right under the ”ingredients” (peanuts, salt), it reads ”contains: peanut”. Then, ”may contain: tree nuts” "

Since peanuts are not tree nuts, maybe that's saying that the facility also processes tree nuts (like almonds and walnuts) and maybe some residue of same could be left on the equipment when peanuts are processed. I don't know if there are people allergic to tree nuts and not peanuts, or vice versa. These disclosures seem easy enough to either look for or disregard as one chooses. If even one person's health is protected by their presence, I'd say it was worth it.

I have a family member who is quite allergic to sesame seeds, it causes their airway to close. An EpiPen is always nearby. It was shocking to learn just how many non-Asian items and items one would never imagine could contain sesame seeds, in fact do. The disclosures for this person are serious and important and so too for the millions of others with all the various known allergic reactions.

I never thought I would agree with wildchild about something, but cream also contains lactose so if you have a milk allergy you'd surely have a cream allergy as well.

" but cream also contains lactose so if you have a milk allergy you'd surely have a cream allergy as well. "

A reaction to lactose isn't an allergy, it's an intolerance - it may sound the same, but medically and physiologically they're different things. If someone is allergic to milk, it's virtually always an allergy to the casein, a milk protein (cow's milk proteins are 80% casein, 20% whey).

@Toronto Veterinarian is it correct to say that an allergy might cause anaphylactic shock and an intolerance might cause ’only’ intestinal upset or hives? In other words the allergy might be life threatening but the intolerance would likely ’only’ be discomfort of some kind. I qualify each question & statement with might & only because there are probably exceptions & I’m not intending to open an argument about my question & statement.

Never mind! Here’s the answer from AI ! I realized I should just look it up

The main difference between anaphylactic shock and intolerance is that anaphylactic shock is a severe allergic reaction that can be life-threatening, while intolerance is a chemical reaction that doesn't involve the immune system and doesn't cause severe reactions:

We only use Whole Milk in this house. The front label clearly says Vitamin D Milk.

On the nutrition label it says Ingredients: Milk, Vitamin D. Under that is Contains Milk.

We live in a very strange world today full of very stupid people. I pretty much doubt that anyone too ignorant to know milk contains milk is going to bother reading a nutrition label.

Wildchild, we have individual milk in our house. We seem to drink almost equal amounts and buy organic at Costco. Whole for me, 1% for him. I need the calories where he does not.

Didn't my wood stove have a sign on it that said, Caution Hot While in Operation!?!?

I don't see why the butter couldn't now be sold to bakeries that use butter in their products.

As surely as Water will wet us, Fire surely will burn ...

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where have I heard this ... lately

My take on this is similar to wildchild's. I'd like to think that anyone with a milk allegy *knows* that butter is a milk product. Maybe not? We are so removed from the reality of the things we buy, all nicely packaged as though they didn't have 'origins'.

I've seen a complaint that these 'protections' interfere with beneficial winnowing of the species.

Remember the lawsuit against McDonald's over (hot) coffee?

re: peanuts and tree nuts. A friend of mine is severely allergic to hazelnuts which is a tree nut but he is not allergic to peanuts. So "may contain tree nuts" is a label that they read and pay attention to.

Wondering is ghee safe for someone with a milk allergy, since it doesn't contain milk solids?

And it's not that hard to imagine a number of circumstances where someone might benefit from that warning - it's also CYA for the producer. Why should a company deliberately flout a regulation that's designed to promote public safety, along with limiting their liability?

No!!!! No milk, dairy, whey, goat milk, butter, cream, cheese of any kind, etc.

"Why should a company deliberately flout a regulation that's designed to promote public safety, along with limiting their liability?"

I highly doubt it was intentional with more of an error due to incompetence of a person or people responsible for proofing the packaging. Could of been a printing error, but still a QC employee should of caught it. Chances are someone at Costco got a letter of termination on this goof.

I have reactions to milk but not to cream or butter - I guess because the amount of milk that is in cream or butter is so low, but this might not be the case for someone else.

Lar's you are sensitive, but not allergic.

Allergic means a complete reaction. Your throat swells shut, no air, everything shuts down. If you do not get one or two EpiPens right away and hit an emergency room in a few minutes, you will die. This is my grandson. Any amount of dairy, (or peanuts) triggers this.

Even with the Epipens and the emergency room, it is not a given that you will live........

Sherry perhaps the word you are seeking is anaphylaxis. There are different degrees of allergic reactions, for instance I get a rash with penicillin. In some cases, allergies can sometimes proceed to anaphylaxis after a time and additional exposure, which is why I no longer take penicillin.

No, I mean allergic. I do NOT mean a rash or an upset tummy.

" Allergic means a complete reaction. Your throat swells shut, no air, everything shuts down. If you do not get one or two EpiPens right away and hit an emergency room in a few minutes, you will die. "

That's an anaphylactic reaction, and it's only one type - the most serious type - of an allergic reaction. Allergic reactions can include rashes and hives, itchy eyes and sneezes, localized swelling, or cramps and diarrhea.

There have been enough instances in this forum of people offering well-intentioned advice unfortunately from arbitrary personal biases or bogus information sources that a citation of the origin of information being shared is useful.

Perhaps you know it alls could talk to my grandson and tell him it is not really that bad, when he is in the hospital……????

" Perhaps you know it alls could talk to my grandson and tell him it is not really that bad, "

Huh? Did anyone say his anaphylaxis is not serious? You're imagining things.

Time for a deep breath! My understanding of this conversation has been some of us trying to understand the difference between typical allergic reaction vs intolerance to ingested substances. No one has said either one of those things are anything less than terrifying. It’s a benefit to all of us if we understand the difference - and what to do - should we ever encounter someone having either type of reaction.

@Sherry8aNorthAL I don't think anyone is denying that your grandson has the severe allergic reaction you describe. But as Toronto Veterinarian wrote, allergies can run from severe anaphylaxis requiring immediate medical intervention to less severe allergic reactions. Sometimes those less severe reactions eventually turn into more severe reactions, so any allergic reaction should be taken seriously. Some people have an intolerance or sensitivity (like digestive upset) that might not be a true allergy. Or it could be. I think anything involving the ability to breathe is taken seriously.

I'm allergic to mangos. I won't die from it, but my whole face and body breaks out in horrible hives.

Ollie Jane, yes some people get horrible reactions to urushiol, the same substance that is found on poison ivy,poison oak. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-do-cashews-mangoes-and-poison-ivy-have-in-common/

Yes, I have always been allergic to poison ivy. Very. It is the only thing I have an allergic reaction to-too bad, because I loved mangos. For some reason, I am okay with cashews?

The cashews that may be risky for you are the raw cashews in the shell, I have never seen these for sale at a store. Apparently shelling and then roasting removes most traces of urushiol. It might be good to cautiously monitor your cashew use in case your sensitivity increases.

Intolerance vs Anaphylaxis reaction (anecdotal - nothing to site) I have an "intolerance" to eggs. I can eat them when in cakes/cookies etc but not when they're served as scrambled, omelettes, etc. I mean yes, I could, but I feel like crap pretty quickly. My mom said I refused to eat them after about age 2 and her feeling was that I just knew. It probably just has something to do with the amount, In cakes/cookies they are essentially "watered down". Basically 2 eggs spread over 5 dozen cookies vs 2 whole eggs unadulterated.

Now my nephew, my sisters son, has an anaphylaxis reaction to eggs, He can't eat them at all, not even in cakes or cookies. He always has to carry an epi pen and get to the hospital if he ingests even the tiniest bit.

One the topic of reactions: As we age, our natural immunities decline. A reaction that was merely annoying in the past can become severe.

Also, products you've used for ages can have changes in formula --often regarding preservatives.. In the case of produce, preservative coatings are sometimes added. Growers may start to use different insecticides and fertilizers. The FDA can only do so much!

" One the topic of reactions: As we age, our natural immunities decline. A reaction that was merely annoying in the past can become severe. "

On the other hand, sometimes allergies can disappear, for no known reason. My father was in a study for people allergic to some fruit (strawberries?), which he'd had virtually all his life, but they told him he was no longer allergic to them.

My grandson tested dangerously allergic to peanuts, all tree nuts except almonds, eggs and cats when he was quite small. I can’t recall why he was tested. We all carried epipens for years. Then he tested a few years later and he was no longer allergic to tree nuts or eggs! Then one night I had him at a hotel where they serve a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie when you check in. After eating a few little bites, he reported his lips were tingling. Turns out there were walnuts or pecans in the cookie. I had some benedryl and had him eat one before I decided to use the epipen, which I knew would be super traumatic for both of us. Luckily that worked. I recently learned someone was giving him nutella and that didn’t bother him. He has scrambled eggs regularly now, too