Banana baby food is being recalled due to glass in the product.
On 30 June 2011, Nestlé France announced it had voluntarily recalled one batch of its P'tit Pot recette Banane baby food following the discovery of glass in the product by a consumer. While the find was confined to one piece of glass in only one jar, nevertheless the company instituted a recall of the entire batch, which amounted to more than 30,000 containers of baby food. The bar code on the recalled products was 7 613033089732, with an expiry date of October 2012 and a batch number of L 10980295.To date, no other bits of glass have been found in other jars.Said Nestlé of its recall of the suspect batch:Please note that this batch of P'tit Pot recette Banane baby food is only sold in France - no other countries, brands or batches are affected.The nature of rumor being what it is, the announcement of a limited recall involving one batch of one flavor of baby food in one country quickly morphed intoalerts that encompassed other countries and manufacturers. Spread by e-mail and social media networks such as Facebook, breathless warnings trumpeted a danger inherent to all banana baby food produced by Nestlé anywhere in the world. But the madness didn't stop there - Gerber was incorrectly fingered in many of the warnings as the company with glass in its baby food.Simply put, if the baby food you're concerned about doesn't look like the picture shown in this article, don't worry about it.One piece of glass. One jar. In banana baby food sold only in France.Barbara 'baby food for thought' Mikkelson
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