Walmart Recalls Great Value Chips Due to Metal Contamination

Walmart Great Value Brand Chips Recall Overview:

• Who: Walmart is recalling 2,555 cases of Great Value brand tortilla chips.
• Why: The company has discovered there may be metal pieces in the product.
• Where: The chips were distributed to Walmarts in IL, MO, NE, WI, WY.

More than 25,500 bags of Walmart’s Great Value tortilla chips are being recalled as they may contain pieces of metal. 

In an enforcement report issued March 3 on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website, the company said it was recalling 2,555 10-bag cases of Great Value Restaurant Style White Corn Tortilla Chips.

“Chips may contain a foreign material (metal),” the enforcement report stated. 

The chips were distributed by Walmart to its stores in Illinois, Montana, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Nebraska. 

The product has the UPC code 78742-11453, and the best-by date of May 23, so it is possible consumers still have the chips in their homes. 

The enforcement notice did not state how Walmart became aware of the issue, or whether there had been any injuries so far from the issue.

The company is not currently facing legal action over the recall, but Top Class Actions follows recalls closely as they sometimes end in class action lawsuits.

Walmart was in court in 2017 and 2018 over another type of chips.

In 2017, an Illinois woman filed a class action lawsuit claiming Walmart pita chips are unlawfully mislabeled as “all natural” when in fact they contain synthetic ingredients. It survived a motion to dismiss in 2018.

Walmart Joins Coca-Cola, Costco, Kool-Aid, Driscoll, and Birds Eye on Growing List of Companies Recalling Products Over Metal Contamination

Other companies have faced major recalls over metal pieces in products over the past few months. In December, the Coca-Cola Company recalled Sprite, Coca-Cola, and Minute Maid drinks due to metal contamination in the soda and in November Flower Foods recalled it’s Tastykake cupcakes due to contamination with “metal mesh wire.” 

Kool-Aid sold at Costco faced a similar recall for metal contamination in the drinking product in November 2021. Birds Eye has faced recalls for metal found in their frozen vegetable products, and even Driscoll has been forced to recall fresh blueberries over metal fragment contamination. 

Will you check your tortilla chips to make sure they are not included in the recall? Let us know in the comments! 

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