The Food and Drug Administration's recall page added no new consumer entry on Friday. The week's standing items — the California Dairies powdered-milk recall and its downstream chain of seasoning, snack, and beverage-mix pulls; the Loard's Ice Cream allergen recall from April 16; the Malazi tahini recall from May 18 — remained the active items consumers would see on a holiday-weekend shopping trip. [1][2]

The plain-English version of "recall ledger": fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts is a continuously updated public list of food and drug products that companies or the agency have pulled from sale. It is the only single page where a household can see, on a Friday before Memorial Day, what is no longer supposed to be in the grocery cart. The California Dairies powdered-milk chain is the week's largest active entry — at least eight companies have recalled downstream products that used the contaminated powder. No illness has been reported. [3]

The paper's May 21 brief took the position that the page is the household's instrument. Friday's update — no new item, the chain unchanged — keeps the page as the artifact. The institution behind it is still between principals after Marty Makary's resignation; the recall cadence has not changed. Consumers who already bought any of the listed products should return them or throw them out. [1]

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago