An egg replacer with egg in it, and four more recalls
Check this one first: an egg replacer that contains egg
Aquafaba is the chickpea water you buy so you can skip the egg. It whips like egg white, and in an egg-allergic kitchen it is the thing that puts meringue and mayonnaise back on the table. 529 Commerce is recalling 3,860 units of Rooted in RARE brand Aquafaba Powder because it may contain egg.
The recall started after a customer had a reaction and reported it. The affected pouches are 4 oz and 12 oz foil, UPC 199284530959 and 199284306226, sold through Amazon and rootedinrare.com between June 2025 and July 2026. The best-by date is on a sticker at the back bottom left of the pack: Best by 12/14/2026 or Best by 12/12/2027. If one of those is in your pantry, do not bake with it.
Two more in the US
A shopper opened a carton of Red’s Steak Cilantro and Lime Burrito and found a different product inside, one that contains egg. They told the plant, the plant told FSIS, and on July 29 FSIS issued a public health alert rather than a recall, because the burritos were already past sale. The cartons are 3-lb 2-oz, ten individually wrapped burritos, EST. 46069, produced June 19, shipped to Costco distribution locations in Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. Twelve production lots are listed on the notice, all beginning L1 SD6170. Past sale does not mean out of the house, so check the freezer.
Lidl US expanded its July 24 recall of Eridanous Shortbread Cookies on July 31. The boxes went out with foreign-language packaging that carried no English ingredient list, no nutrition facts panel, and no allergen declaration at all. Wheat, soy, milk, egg, and tree nut (coconut) are in the cookie, and none of them are on the box in a language the store’s shoppers were expected to read. Two 11.6 oz products are affected, UPC 4056489125839 and 4056489125846, distributed July 15 to July 28 to Lidl stores in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Canada and the UK
Canada. Hershey’s Kisses Creamy Milk Chocolate, undeclared almond, Class 1, the CFIA’s top severity, distributed nationally. The bags are 104 g (UPC 0 56600 62076 6) and 200 g (UPC 0 56600 20203 0), all with a best before of 2027 JN 01, across two dozen production codes listed on the notice. A plain milk-chocolate Kiss is a candy an almond-allergic kid has been told is fine.
United Kingdom. ASR Solutions Lay’s Sour Cream & Dill Crisps, undeclared milk and wheat, sold in Home Bargains, 125 g bags, all best-before dates up to and including 31 October 2026.
The pattern this week
Three of the five carry egg, and two of those three are not an ingredient left off a list. A carton said steak burrito and held something else. A pouch said aquafaba, which is the word for not-egg, and held egg. In both, the panel described the product the package was meant to contain, and something different was inside it.
The Lidl cookies are a third shape. The panel existed, in a language the shopper could not read, which for the purpose of catching an allergen is the same as no panel.
Before you go
Each recall above links to its primary agency notice, with product photos and lot numbers. I go through the federal and provincial recall feeds every week and post what an allergy household would actually want flagged. The next one lands next week.
Not medical advice. Every reaction is different, so follow the emergency action plan you built with your allergist; if you do not have one, that is the ask for your next visit. When a reaction is severe or you are not sure how bad it is, do not delay epinephrine, then call for help.