When food products are recalled, what happens to them?
I work in a food factory and in the case that you mentioned they would take the eggs from the old boxes or foils and put them in the correct boxes(or foils) explaining about the allergen situation, making sure that they’d taken note of which batch(es) that they’d repackaged. They may even just have put another label on them explaining about the nuts situation. It also depends on the “risk” level of food that you are dealing with. Low risk is a completely cooked sweet ambient product. Medium risk is a dairy product like cream or butter that is put onto a product uncooked (eg butter cream brandy butter). High risk is mainly for meat and poultry products. A low or medium risk product that has very little chance of contaminating anything else would simply be thrown in the bin if nothing else could be done about it. A high risk product would have to be incinerated because it may affect other products. If its thought to be too expensive to replace all the packaging they may sent the lot “to
