Cinnamon rolls and cheese danishes from The JM Smucker Company have been recalled nationwide after being found to contain pieces of plastic.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday classified the recall as Class II, meaning the use or exposure to these products may cause temporary or medically reversible health consequences, or the probability of serious consequences is remote.
The recall, initiated on November 1, involves Great Value Cinnamon Rolls in 16.5-ounce packages with UPC 078742201160 and Great Value Cheese Danish in 16.5-ounce packages with UPC 078742201177.
The cinnamon roll recall involves 1,602 cases, while the cheese danish recall affects 2,027 cases.
Both products share the same lot code, L092525200 269X, and are distributed in cases containing 12 retail units each.
The cinnamon roll and cheese danish recalls are both voluntary and were initiated by The JM Smucker Company. Newsweek has contacted the company via email for comment.
The FDA's classification of the recall was finalized on November 19, and the status of the event remains ongoing.
There have been several other recent FDA recalls because foreign objects, such as glass, metal, plastic and bone, were found in food and medical products.
In August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a recall for more than 167,000 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken because of metal fragment contamination. The same month, potato salad pots were recalled because of the presence of hard plastics, which was also given a Class II risk definition by the FDA.
According to the FDA, "hard or sharp foreign objects in food may cause traumatic injury including laceration and perforation of tissues of the mouth, tongue, throat, stomach and intestine as well as damage to the teeth and gums."
However, it reports that foreign objects like plastic, bone or metal that are less than 7mm "rarely cause trauma or serious injury except in special risk groups such as infants, surgery patients, and the elderly."
According to regulatory compliance company Traceone, the presence of foreign objects in food items, such as small pieces of plastic or metal, accounted for 11.6 percent of food recalls issued between 2020 and 2024.
Traceone also found that the number of recalls issued per year increased between 2020 and 2023, from 454 to 547.
When a recall is made by the FDA, risk classifications are used to delineate the seriousness of the risk to the public. A Class II recall falls between Class I, which is the most serious, and Class III, which is the least.
A Class I recall is issued when there is a "reasonable probability" that the use of or exposure to a product could "cause serious adverse health consequences or death." A Class III is awarded when "a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences."
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