Wild Cherry Capri Sun Is Being Recalled For A Scary Reason

As summer break comes to an end, school supplies are flying off of shelves, and grocery carts are filling up with school lunch food and drinks. Consumers trust food production companies to maintain a clean, food-safe facility that yields a product shoppers can confidently buy and serve to themselves and others. According to Food Safety Magazine, equipment used in food and beverage assembly lines should undergo periodic deep cleaning, in addition to daily routine sanitization. However, you don't expect to find cleaning supplies in your food or drinks. 

Kraft Heinz, the producer of Capri Sun, has issued a recall on 5,760 cases of Capri Sun Wild Cherry beverages for possible contamination from a cleaning solution used at one of its factories, per CNN. Each case contains 10 beverages, which means the recall could affect over 230,000 individual pouches.

Kraft Heinz issued the voluntary recall after a diluted cleaning solution used on production equipment, made its way into a batch of Wild Cherry Capri Suns during production. The wild cherry flavor is currently the only beverage being recalled. The recall is especially worrisome because the issue came to the company's attention after consumers had already ingested the beverage and complained about an off taste.