Preferred Popcorn Recall: Popcorn may contain foreign material: tempered glass between 3 mm and 7 mm in size

🇺🇸 United States

1. August 28, 2020 - Recall initiated
2. September 16, 2020 - Reported by source
3. October 23, 2020 - Recall terminated

Official source record

Agency

FDA

Dataset

FDA Food Enforcement (Recalls)

Recall number

F-1437-2020

Event ID

86353

Status

Terminated

Classification

Class II

Company

Preferred Popcorn

Product description

Organic Yellow Popcorn packaged in the following ways: 1) Great Northern Organic Popcorn, Net Wt. 5 Pounds (2.26 Kilograms), UPC 6 10708 14709 1; 2) Hometown Food Company, Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 3) Lesser Evil, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2185 LBS Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 4) Medium Organic Yellow Popcorn, 25 LB (11.34 Kg) Preferred Popcorn LLC; 5) Medium Organic Yellow Popcorn, 50 LB (22.68 Kg) Preferred Popcorn LLC; 6) Shearer's, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 7) Specialty Food Group, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 8) Trader Joes Organic Popping Corn, Net Wt. 28 OZ (1 lb 12 oz) 794 g, Dist. & Sold Exclusively by Trader Joe's Monrovia, CA UPC 0094 5288 9) Troystar Packaging, Inc. Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2000 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 10) Whole Alternatives, Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2000 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 11) Preferred Popcorn Organic Yellow Popcorn, Net Wt. 28oz / 794 g, Preferred Popcorn, LLC, Chapman, NE, UPC 7 64256 44035 4 12) Preferred Popcorn Organic Butterfly Popcorn, Net Wt. 50 lbs (22.68 kg), Preferred Popcorn, LLC, Chapman, NE, UPC 7 64256 30002 3

Quantity

1,162,117 lbs

Reason

Popcorn may contain foreign material: tempered glass between 3 mm and 7 mm in size

Recall initiation date

August 28, 2020

Report date

September 16, 2020

Classification date

Not published in this source record

Termination date

October 23, 2020

Distribution pattern

Distributed to the US States CA, CO, CT, FL, IA, IL, KY, OH, SD, WI, and British Columbia, Canada

UPC, lot, and code information

PN116-9402A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9560A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9048A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9171A,Exp: 6/2021: PN122-9241A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9248A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9304A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9342A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9343A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9366A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9367A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9370A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9437A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9559A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9601A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9602A,Exp: 8/2021: PN125-9538A,Exp: 8/2021: PN125-9610A,Exp: 9/2021: PN128-9266A,Exp: 7/2021: PNB128-9102A,Exp: 8/2021: PNR1229140A,BB 02-JUL-2021: PNR1229243A,BB 09-JUL-2021: PNR1229286A,Exp: 03-AUG-2021: PNR1229406A,BB 04-AUG-2021: PNR1229476A,BB 31-JAN-2022: PNR1229479A,BB 31-JAN-2022: PNR1229547A,BB 05-AUG-2021: PNR1229639A,Exp: 8/2021: PNR1279183A,BB 25-JUN-2021: PNT116-9328A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9079A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9080A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9093A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9094A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9195A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9283A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9307A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9318A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9326A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9364A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9440A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9493A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9550A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9566A,Exp: 9/2021: PNT127-9242A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT128-9077A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT128-9291A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT128-9313A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT128-9314A,Exp: 7/2021

Voluntary or mandated

Voluntary: Firm initiated

Initial notification method

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Source last updated

Not tracked separately from the Public Health Trace retrieval date below

Public Health Trace retrieval date

July 18, 2026 ET

Responsible company: Preferred Popcorn

A map highlighting the states named in the source's distribution description.

Distributed No data published

Shading reflects state-level totals only, as published by the source. It does not imply county-level or point-level precision.

Distribution map

State	Distributed
California	1
Colorado	1
Connecticut	1
Florida	1
Iowa	1
Illinois	1
Kentucky	1
Ohio	1
South Dakota	1
Wisconsin	1

States shown are extracted from the source's free-text distribution description above; a narrative description (e.g. "distributed nationwide") may not list individual states to extract.

Where this information comes from

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No separate FDA public notice was found for this enforcement record. The information below comes from FDA's Recall Enterprise System through openFDA.

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Technical source data

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Retrieved by Public Health Trace: July 18, 2026 ET

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