Grocery chain Costco has been forced to recall tens of thousands of pounds (lbs) of butter after its label failed to mention that it contains milk, seemingly unaware of the fact that butter is made from milk.

According to the New York Post, the supermarket chain was forced to recall 79,200 lbs of butter in compliance with an initial recall order issued last month by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The product in question was Kirkland Signature Sweet Cream Butter, in both the salted and unsalted variants.

USA Today reported, citing the FDA, that the recall was initiated on Oct. 11 by a wholesaler in Littlefield, Texas. The unsalted butter for recall amounted to a total of 46,800 lbs while the salted butter amounted to a total of 32,400 lbs.

The butter’s packaging lists cream as an ingredient, but it does not include an allergy warning that the butter “contains milk.” The FDA did not say if there have been any illnesses or adverse reactions from the products being recalled. (Related: Eight brands of butter wrappers found to contain high levels of “forever chemicals” – is your favorite brand on the list?)

“While butter … is low in lactose, people who are allergic to milk are likely to have a bad reaction to it,” the Post continued. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted in the recall that milk is one of the main foods that “account for most serious allergic reactions in the United States.”

According to EatMoreButter.com, butter is made from cream, which rises to the top when milk is left to sit. This fatty cream is then churned to separate the solid milk fat from the liquid buttermilk. The milk fat turns into yellow butter, which is either salted or left unsalted depending on preference.

Social media users slam recall, dubbing it “food wastage”

The Post noted that the recall has left many internet users scratching their heads. Their criticism centered on the fact that butter, which lists milk as its allergen, is made from the product.

“80,000 lbs of Costco butter was just recalled, because the label doesn’t say that it contains milk. It’s butter,” one user remarked. “News articles are telling people how they can return, or safely dispose of, the butter. It’s butter.”

A second user chided the FDA for its recall, which wasted perfectly edible food. “Rather than waste 80,000 lbs of butter, why don’t they print stickers that say ‘Contains Milk’ and save perfectly good food? So wasteful,” they wrote.

A third user mockingly noted that the regulator could “recall beef that might contain cow,” while a fourth user called on others to “safely dispose” the butter at their house for their “holiday baking.”

“If you need government to tell you that butter is a dairy product, then … well I can’t help you,” a fifth user said. “God I loathe the state.”

“To be called ‘butter,’ it must contain milk or milk derivatives. Talk about useless government,” a sixth user remarked.

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Sources include:

NYPost.com

USAToday.com

EatMoreButter.com

Brighteon.com