Kraft recalls 242,000 Macaroni & Cheese boxes owing to metal contamination

Kraft Food Group has announced a voluntary recall of around 242,000 cases of the 7.25oz original flavour Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner, due to the possible presence of small pieces of metal.

The company has recalled the products with ‘best when used by’ dates of September 18 2015, through to October 11 2015, and with the code ‘C2’ directly below the date on each individual box. ‘C2’ stands for the production line on which the affected products were manufactured.

Some of the recalled products had also been sold in three, four and five-pack boxes.

The company had shipped the product to customers across the US, along with Puerto Rico and some Caribbean and South American countries. The products were not shipped to Canada.

The company said in a statement that it had received eight consumer contacts about the product from the impacted line within the range of code dates. However no injuries have been reported.

Kraft spokeswoman Joyce Hodel said in a statement: "We believe a piece of stainless steel got wedged in a metal piece of equipment, which may have generated friction that resulted in small pieces of metal potentially falling into the product.

"We deeply apologise to the consumers we have disappointed."

This comes less than four years after a similar incident in September 2011, when the company had to recall close to 137,000 cases of Velveeta Shells & Cheese single-serve cups due to the possible presence of small, thin wire bristle pieces, reported Reuters.

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Image: Kraft Foods Group voluntarily recalls select code dates and manufacturing codes of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese boxed dinners due to possible metal pieces. Photo: courtesy of Kraft Foods Group.