Hash browns sold at a popular grocery store up and down the East Coast are being recalled after it was discovered the bags contained potatoes that may have been mixed with golf balls before packaging.
McCain Foods USA, Inc issued a voluntary recall for frozen hash browns sold at Harris Teeter stores in Washington, D.C. and 7 states. The company is recalling 2-pound bags of Harris Teeter brand frozen southern style hash browns in the District of Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia and Maryland.
The company is also recalling Roundy’s brand frozen southern style hash browns from Marianos, Metro Market and Pick ‘n Save stores in Illinois and Wisconsin.
McCain Foods said that they are recalling the two products because they “may be contaminated with extraneous golf ball materials that despite our stringent supply standards may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes used to make this product.”
“We believe the cause might be that the field where the potatoes were harvested was adjacent to a golf course,” McCain Foods explained in a statement emailed to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Consumption of these products may pose a choking hazard or other physical injury to the mouth,” the statement read.
“Food safety remains a top priority for McCain Foods USA, Inc. and we have full confidence that all appropriate steps are being taken to protect our consumers,” the company asserted.
McCain Foods is working with Harris Teeter and the Food and Drug Administration to remove the products from store shelves. The products were distributed to the stores after Jan. 19, 2017, according to WUSA9.
Consumers are being asked to return the affected product to the store of purchase for a full refund.
TheDCNF reached out to Harris Teeter but did not get a reply by press time.
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