Sara Lee recall: Bread may contain metal

Posted Jul 27th 2007 3:20PM by Barry Summerlin
Filed under: Bad News, Products and Services, Consumer Experience, Wal-Mart (WMT), Sara Lee Corp (SLE)

Whole wheat flour, water, corn syrup, metal shards? Consumer products giant Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) has announced a voluntary recall for whole wheat bread sold in the deep South that may contain metal pieces.

The suspect loaves were made at its bakery in Meridian, Miss., where Sara Lee workers this week discovered that a wheat flour sifter was damaged. Sara Lee issued the precautionary recall, concerned that metal from the sifter may have gotten into the loaves.

Sara Lee said the bread was sold throughout Mississippi and Alabama, and parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana and the Florida panhandle.

In addition to its Sara Lee brands, affected brands included Earthgrains, Flavorite, Golden Bake, Grissom's, Shurfresh, and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT)'s Great Value brand, as well as store brands at regional groceries Foodland, Schnucks, IGA, Piggly-Wiggly and Publix (OTC: PUSH).

Shares of Sara Lee traded narrowly between $16.04 and $16.22 today, sitting 3 cents under at $16.15 shortly after 3 p.m.

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7-27-2007 @ 5:18PM

anita said...

Well folks, what are we suppose to do,all go on a hunger strike?? We can't eat salad, bread, we can't even eat dog food!

7-27-2007 @ 11:41PM

Monk said...

I saw Sara Lee giving away their bread at a Publix store and I thoguht that was odd. Now I know why. T

7-28-2007 @ 12:59AM

Joyfull said...

Criminy!!!! What next?????? Why don't we just give up eating altogether? We might die, but at least we wouldn't get poisoned by those who are supposed to make decent, clean and safe food for us to eat.

7-28-2007 @ 10:03AM

Joyce said...

I am in charge of Quality in a factory and people simply are not doing their jobs in maintenance and Quality in these food factorys. Temp guages should be calibrated and food temps tested, how often do they clean their flour sifters on bakery lines? The bottom line is going to go out of site if someone does not start caring about what they are producing for use and consumtion.

7-28-2007 @ 12:07PM

Marilyn Lester said...

Thank God we have safeguards put into place that catch these mistakes, manufacturers that post these mistakes as soon as humanly possible, and the Internet where the public can know as soon as possible. Is this a great country or what?