Nearly 60,000 canisters of a complement Jennifer Aniston promotes have been recalled attributable to potential contamination.
Vital Proteins is voluntarily recalling its 24-ounce canisters of Collagen Peptides powder for concern that items of a damaged blue plastic lid contaminated the product.
The “Friends” actress is a spokesperson for the Chicago-headquartered firm, which stated the affected canisters had been distributed to Costco shops in 20 states and Puerto Rico and offered from April 17 to April 24.
“No accidents have been reported attributable to this matter and the potential threat to the patron is low. However, out of an abundance of warning, we’re initiating this voluntary recall as shopper security is our first precedence,” a Vital Proteins consultant wrote in an April letter to Costco customers.
The letter urges clients who purchased the complement within the related interval to not eat it and to as an alternative return their buy to Costco for a full refund.
The Post has reached out to Vital Proteins and Costco for remark.
On the Vital Proteins web site, Aniston, 54, is listed because the chief artistic officer, a place she’s held since November 2020. At the time, Aniston stated she had been utilizing Vital Proteins merchandise since 2016.
Just final 12 months, Aniston revealed her “go-to collagen routine” is including Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides “in my morning cup of espresso or smoothie — really easy to make use of.”
Collagen is a structural protein present in connective tissue, pores and skin, tendon, bone, and cartilage. There is little scientific proof to help the notion that oral collagen dietary supplements maintain well being or beauty advantages.
In a press release to media shops Wednesday, Vital Proteins stated it initiated the recall “out of an abundance of warning and our dedication to product high quality and shopper security.”
The firm added that it “labored with Costco to each notify their members who might have bought impacted product, and take away any doubtlessly impacted product from shops.”
“To date, no accidents have been reported in relation to this recall,” the assertion learn. “No different retailers or e-tailers are affected by this recall, and no different Vital Proteins merchandise are affected.”
