The outer packaging of all the recalled cartons is labeled correctly and provides an allergen advisory statement indicating that the product “contains peanuts.” It’s the individually wrapped snack packs inside, which contain six cracker sandwiches each, that may be incorrectly labeled as the cheese variety.
Multipacks labeled as the cheese variety on the carton (outside packaging) are not affected by this recall.
Anyone with a peanut allergy should not eat the mislabeled cracker sandwiches, the FDA says, and should throw away any snack packs included in the recall.
If you have Ritz Cracker Sandwiches snack packs at home and have already removed the individual packs from the outer carton, you can identify packs mislabeled as the cheese variety by the following labels: “Best When Used By” dates of “1 NOV 25 – 9 NOV 25” or “2 JAN 26 – 22 JAN 26,” and a “Plant Code” of “AE,” “AM,” or “RJ.”
Mondelēz Global initiated the recall after it discovered that the film packaging used to wrap individual peanut butter snack packs may contain defects due to a supplier error. The company is taking steps to make sure this mistake doesn’t happen again, per the FDA statement.
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