FDA Upgrades Recall of 80,000 Pounds of Costco Brand Butter

The reason for the recall is because the butter ‘lists cream, but may be missing the Contains Milk statement,’ the FDA says.

Shoppers leave a Costco store in Washington with a full cart on May 5, 2020. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

A recall of tens of thousands of pounds of butter initiated by a Costco brand was upgraded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an enforcement notice posted late last week.

In early October, the FDA confirmed two recalls of 79,200 pounds of Costco’s Kirkland Signature butter over a label issue. But on Nov. 7, the agency classified the recalls as Class II, meaning that the recalled product “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”