HANOVER, Pa., July 3 (Our New York News) — The FDA has upgraded a recall of certain Zapp’s and Dirty potato chips to its highest risk level, signaling that consumers who bought the products should not eat them because of a possible salmonella contamination risk in a seasoning ingredient.
The agency said the recall is Class I, which it defines as a situation in which there is “a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”
Utz, the Hanover, Pennsylvania-based company that makes the chips, said in May that it had launched the voluntary recall “from an abundance of caution” after identifying a possible problem tied to dry milk powder from a third-party supplier used to make a seasoning ingredient.
Utz said at the time that no salmonella had been found in its products and that there were no reports of illness connected to the recalled chips. The company told consumers not to eat the products and to discard them.
The recalled chips were sold in multiple states, including New York, according to FDA recall materials cited in the agency’s latest enforcement report.
