The recall is applicable across the United States to limited batches of the biscuits sold between July 2025 and September 2025 in 5.5 oz. packages, Gerber said, clarifying that none of its other products are impacted by the recall.
In total, biscuits with 21 batch codes having “Best Before” dates ranging from Oct. 16 to Dec. 16 are being recalled, the company said. Batch codes can be found on the back of the packaging. Gerber advised consumers who have bought the affected biscuits not to feed them to their children.
The company recommended that customers return the products to the retailer from where they were purchased to get a refund.
The plastic and paper pieces in the biscuits “comes from an arrowroot flour supplier who initiated a recall. We are no longer working with the flour supplier,” the company said.
“The quality, safety and integrity of our products remain our highest priority, and we take this responsibility seriously. We sincerely apologize for any concerns or inconvenience this action causes for parents, caregivers, and retail customers.”
Customers with queries about the recall can get in touch with the company at 1-800-4-GERBER.
The Epoch Times reached out to Gerber for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.
Multiple other products have been recalled over the past year due to potential plastic contamination.
The company had received three consumer complaints that reported finding white pieces of plastic in the sausages, about which they notified the FDA, and the recall was initiated afterward.
“If consumed, the plastic pieces could potentially cause a choking response,” Danone said at the time.
“Consequently, many recalls involve the presence of these plastic fragments,” it said. “Over the past 20 years, foreign materials have been responsible for about one out of ten recalls of foods, with plastic fragments being the most common complaint.”
“Fragments of plastic from manufacturing utensils or plastic from food contact and non-food contact surfaces are a major source of hard-to-separate foreign materials,” the study said. “Plastic foreign materials can contaminate food from many sources like equipment, hand tools, freezer belts, conveyors, and some packaging materials.”
According to the study, one way manufacturers can detect plastic contaminants in food would be to use high-density plastics or plastics infused with metal.
However, most food manufacturers use low-density plastics due to their cheaper cost, it said, adding that these plastics have lower density than water, which makes them almost impossible to detect by systems designed to identify contamination.
According to the company, it detected the presence of cereulide toxin in arachidonic acid (ARA) oil used in the production of the infant formula products.
Cereulide, created by certain strains of Bacillus cereus bacteria, can cause foodborne illnesses in individuals who ingest it. There are no generally accepted safe levels of cereulide in infant formula, Nestle said.
“We have discontinued sourcing ARA oil from the affected supplier. All batches of the oil ingredient from our other suppliers are now systemically tested to confirm the absence of cereulide. Production of the implicated brands has restarted at most of our infant formula factories,” the company said.
