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Ukrop's baked spaghetti: 22,880 pounds recalled for metal slivers
A consumer found metal in the fully cooked cobbler; 22,880 lbs of baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler recalled. Throw it away or return it — no injuries.
Ukrop's Homestyle Foods · 2026-07-31
What happened
Ukrop's Homestyle Foods — the Virginia ready-meal maker — produced baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler between July 1 and July 29, 2026, and shipped them to retail in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, to the Department of Defense, and online.
A consumer found a metal piece in a fully cooked product. On July 31, 2026, the USDA's FSIS recalled about 22,880 pounds of the baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler products for possible foreign material contamination — metal slivers.
No confirmed injuries. The remedy is the oldest one in food: throw it away or return it to the place of purchase. A month of production left the shelf in a day.
Why it happened
- Metal slivers in fully cooked ready meals — one consumer complaint about a metal piece triggered the recall of 22,880 pounds
- Production Jul 1–29, 2026 shipped to three states' retail, the Department of Defense and online — a month of output recalled on Jul 31
- No injuries confirmed — the cost is the recall itself: every case in distribution, and the DoD shelf, emptied for one sliver
The lesson
Foreign-material recalls are paid for by the case: one sliver a customer found empties 22,880 pounds from three states and a military shelf. The complaint is the cheapest sensor.
Sources
- USDA FSIS — Ukrop's Homestyle Foods Recalls Spaghetti and Chicken Products Due to Possible Foreign Material Contamination (Jul 2026)
- Food Safety News — Spaghetti and chicken cobbler recalled because of consumer complaint about metal pieces (Aug 2026)
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