Costco recalls: What to know about the products that the retailer is asking customers to refund or throw away
Here’s everything you need to know about the Costco recall that has been announced.
This week, Costco has pulled two of its ready‑to‑eat meals off the shelves after learning their salad dressings may contain shards of plastic. The items affected are the store’s Caesar Salad and the Chicken Sandwich with Caesar Salad.
According to the recall notice, the contamination stems from the dressing supplied, apparently by Ventura Foods, and only certain production lots are implicated. For the Caesar Salad the flagged lot is 19927; for the chicken sandwich, lot 11444.
If your purchase shows a sell‑by date between mid‑October and early November 2025, you should not eat it.
Costco asked customers who bought these items to either throw them away or return them for a full refund. The recall covers multiple regions across the United States including the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast.
The recall draws attention to a larger problem: the vulnerabilities in modern food supply chains, especially for pre‑packaged, ready-to-eat foods. Plastic fragments in food pose serious safety risks: choking, internal damage, or unknown long‑term health effects if ingested.
Incidents like this might shake consumer confidence in grab-and-go food. For retailers and suppliers, the message is clear: quality control in food processing and packaging must be tight, or such lapses can carry heavy public‑health costs.
The note comes amid a number of other Costco items that are being recalled, such as almost a million bottles of Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene, pulled because the glass bottles may shatter unexpectedly, even while unopened.
Those "paper" cups you drink your coffee from are actually lined with plastic, which when combined with heat "releases thousands of microplastics that end up in your bloodstream".
— healthbot (@thehealthb0t) November 26, 2025
"Some studies even show it can end up in your brain." pic.twitter.com/HrP5fomopP
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The recall covers about 941,400 bottles distributed from April to August 2025, sold across several Midwestern U.S. states.
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