Brooklyn Factory Recalls Dumplings Tainted With...Milk

Don't eat the pelmeni! (Photo via finaeva_i/ Shutterstock)

Watch out, cheap eaters: a Brooklyn company has recalled 11,000 lbs of dumplings because they may contain a nefarious undeclared allergen—milk.

M&P Food Production, Ltd in Sunset Park is recalling frozen dumplings stuffed with chicken, beef, veal and pork under the Bapehuku, Babushka, Russian and Siberian brands. The milk is used in the sour cream used to make the dough for the dumplings. A Food Safety and Inspection Service employee noticed that sour cream was listed on the dumpling's ingredients label, but there was no indication of milk as an ingredient.

A staffer we spoke to at M&P this morning told us that so far, the factory hasn't gotten any customer complaints about the dumplings. The frozen snacks are distributed to grocery stores across New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, South Carolina and Florida, "usually smaller Russian and Ukrainian stores." The recall applies to all packages distributed in the past six months.

While rare, milk allergies can be fatal...which means it might not be such a bad idea to invest in this dorky-looking food allergen detector, after all.

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By Jamie Feldmar in Food on September 22, 2011 12:03 PM

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camerav

I'm actually severely allergic to dairy and when I was a little kid, I had to read every ingredient for sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate or whey. If I saw "Sour Cream" it would make my life much easier... because Sour Cream is made with milk.... so I knew... you know? It's really obvious.

jonityson

The following product is subject to recall: http://bit.ly/r0T1Og

Lisanne!

But isn't sour cream ALSO a dairy product?

Spirit of 76

It's more bad writing from the bloggers at Gothamist. Never trust them to give you the right information. Always check the provided links. The recall is because the inspector noticed they were using sour cream, but sour cream was not listed in the ingredients.

Spirit of 76

I hope they're just going to change the packaging on the recalled product or at least donate it to a homeless shelter or food bank. Be a real waste if they just threw them out.

Daniel

They can't really do that stuff anymore either, because they'll get into legal trouble for that too, if someone gets sick. That's why restaurant and super market chains are prohibited by their parent corporations from giving away any food that has to be disposed of daily and they are ordered to destroy it instead. No good deed...

getDange

I hope you are not implying that it is ok for the homeless to die from milk allergies, I hope you simply mean they should glue on new labels on the packages and send them to some charity. ;)

And Barehuku brand is actually not written in Latin letters, it is in Cyrillic, and is pronounced "Vareniki", a Russian word for "dumplings".

Spirit of 76

I can assure you that soup kitchens and homeless shelters cook with milk or dairy products on occasion, which you would know if you ever volunteered in one. If the dumplings are vacuum-bagged then placed inside boxes, I don't see anything wrong with transferring the bags into new boxes with updated ingredient lists.