It’s a staple on tables from Crowley to Covington and Lacassine to Concordia Lake, it’s American comfort food although we may take liberties with the seasoning, if you know what I mean, here in Louisiana. The food we are talking about is mac and cheese, or limp wet bread with melted cheese. Yeah, mac and cheese sounds better and if you’re a fan then you should be aware of a nationwide recall involving mac and cheese products.
Based on information from a leading manufacturer of our favorite noodle smothered in a melty cheese sauce 8.95 million Americans wolfed down at least five servings of the stuff last year. And those figures are based on just that company’s data. If you count all of the other places you could have gotten mac and cheese I am sure it would be more.
The reason we didn’t identify the company mentioned above is because this story is about a recall of mac and cheese products. That company’s products are not involved in this recall so we wanted to avoid any confusion.
But, what we have learned from the Food and Drug Administration is that a nationwide recall has been issued for frozen mac and cheese bites. The recall is a Class II risk according to the FDA. If you’re wondering what a Class II risk means, here’s how the FDA defines it.
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…