Nearly 15,000 Pounds Of Frozen Pizza Recalled For Serious Reason
Home Run Inn has issued an urgent frozen pizza recall for an immense amount of its pizzas after discovering metal pieces in them.
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In what is becoming an unfortunate trend, recalls are occurring at record rates. In recent weeks, numerous food products including popular chocolates and candies have been recalled by multiple companies. Mass baby formula recalls created severe product shortages nationwide. In July, Banana Boat recalled one of its popular sunscreens due to the identification of cancer-causing agents. Just today, over 2 million baby swings were recalled following the death of an infant. Now it’s frozen pizza’s turn. According to NBC News, there was an urgent frozen pizza recall issued for over 13,000 pounds of the food product.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that the company Home Run Inn issued a frozen pizza recall for its 33.5-ounce pizzas. The affected pizzas are those topped with sausage, pepperoni, onions, and peppers. The company detailed that the recall was issued due to having discovered “extraneous materials, specifically metal” in the pizzas. The tainted pizzas are reported to have a “best if used by date” of December 3, 2022. The contaminated batch was produced on June 6, 2022.
Home Run Inn told the FSIS that it moved to issue the frozen pizza recall after it began receiving customer complaints about the affected pies. The FSIS said that the complaints specifically referred to metal pieces being found in or on the food. It remains unclear how the metal found its way into the affected pizzas. It is also still uncertain whether or not any other Home Run Inn frozen pizza varieties were tainted.
What’s more, is that to date Home Run Inn has not been very forthcoming about all the details surrounding the frozen pizza recall. The company did not provide specific information regarding what retailers the contaminated pizzas were shipped to. Nor did the company provide general regions where the pizzas were made available for purchase. Home Run Inn is based in the Chicago suburb of Woodbridge, Illinois, but according to the website they ship pizza both to retailers and directly to individuals across the nation.
There have been no known injuries or illnesses to occur as a result of the frozen pizza recall, to date. That being said, if metal is ingested it can be particularly detrimental to one’s health. The ingestion of metal can cause symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, shortness of breath, tingling in the hands or feet, body chills, and a general feeling of weakness. If you believe that you may have consumed metal then you should seek medical assistance immediately. Metal toxicity, if gone untreated, can lead to serious chronic ailments.
Home Run Inn has not provided any contact information that consumers can utilize to satisfy any questions or concerns relating to the frozen pizza recall. However, there is an e-mail listed in the contact section of the company website. The email is [email protected]. There is also a short blurb underneath that states “If you have a Home Run Inn family-sized Classic Deluxe Pizza (33.5oz) please return the unconsumed pizza in its original box back to the place of purchase for a full refund of your product. All other Home Run Inn varieties are safe to consume.”
