Recap of the Week's Top 5 Product Recalls, Featuring Beef Sticks and Hot Sauce

The week of March 16 has been a particularly busy one for recalls.

From frozen meals to canned green beans to meat sticks, multiple products have been pulled from shelves over safety concerns.

Here's what you need to check your pantry, fridge, and freezer for this week.

On March 20, Idaho Smokehouse Partners announced a recall of their Chomps Original Beef Sticks and Original Turkey Sticks over the potential presence of metal fragments.

The recall affects specific lots of 1.15-ounce Original Beef Sticks sold as single sticks, and in 12-count and 8-count pouches; it also affects 1.15 Original Turkey Sticks sold as single sticks.

The protein-packed snacks were packaged between Jan. 16 and Jan. 23, and shipped to retail locations in California and Illinois.

More than 4,000 bags of Happy Farms by Aldi Colby Jack shredded cheese were recalled in February and given a Class II classification on March 19.

The recall was voluntarily initiated by Great Lakes Cheese Co., Inc. due to the potential for stainless steel fragments in the cheese.

The bags of shredded cheese were sold in four states: Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

On March 19, the FDA classified a 'Hot Ones' hot sauce recall initiated in February as 'Class II,'' according to an enforcement report from the agency.

More than 50,000 bottles, buckets, and jugs of 'Hot Ones' brand hot sauce—the Verde and Rojo 'Hot Ones' Los Calientes sauces by Heatonist, specifically—were recalled over the potential presence of plastic.

The affected products were sold in various sizes, and distributed to locations in North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

A February recall of more than 200,000 cans of green beans sold at Target was given a 'Class II' risk classification from the FDA on March 13.

The Good & Gather Cut Green Beans were recalled voluntarily by Del Monte Foods, Inc. due to contamination from a foreign object. The FDA announcement did not clarify what the object was.

The recall affects canned green beans that were shipped to 21 states throughout the U.S: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Select batches of Lean Cuisine and Stouffer's frozen meals were recalled nationwide due to the presence of a 'wood-like material,' the FDA announced March 18.

The recall affects three types of Lean Cuisine meals and one type of Stouffer's meal. The recalled frozen meals were sold at major retailers across the U.S. from September 2024 through March 2025.