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NEED TO KNOW
- Several popular salad dressings have been recalled due to the possibility of “foreign objects” being found inside
- Hidden Valley Ranch is among the brands impacted by the Ventura Foods recall
- Costco shared a joint press release with Ventura Foods in November to let consumers know its stores carried affected salad dressings
Thousands of cases of salad dressing have been recalled following concerns that a “foreign object” could be inside.
In a newly released exposure report from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal agency announced that 3,556 cases of various salad dressings from Ventura Foods had been affected in multiple states across the country.
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The California-based company warned the public that “foreign objects (black plastic planting material) in granulated onion” might be found inside its products.
The alert was assigned a Class II label, which refers to “a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
Impacted condiments include Creamy Poblano Avocado Ranch Dressing and Dip, Ventura Caesar Dressing, Pepper Mill Regal Caesar Dressing, Pepper Mill Creamy Caesar Dressing and Hidden Valley Buttermilk Ranch.
Two Caesar dressings specifically sold at Costco are also impacted.
“Costco and Ventura foods are announcing the recall of select Sell By dates of Item #19927 Caesar Salad and Item #11444 Chicken Sandwich w/ Caesar Salad due to the possible presence of plastic foreign material in the salad dressing of the items,” the brands said in a joint statement in November.
After sharing the “sell by” dates of the affected products, customers were urged to “Please stop eating the product and return the item to your local Costco for a full refund.”
In the most recent recall, the FDA said Ventura Foods had distributed the products to seven retail customers across 42 locations.
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Affected states include: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
PEOPLE reached out to Ventura Foods and Hidden Valley Ranch for comment but did not immediately hear back.