On Saturday, Ocean Spray announced a precautionary recall of certain production lots of its Original Flavor Craisins® Dried Cranberries in 5-ounce, 10-ounce and 48-ounce packages, as well as bulk sweetened dried cranberries in 10-pound packages, due to the possibility that they might contain very small hair-like metal fragments.

While they don’t believe the hair like metal fragments are harmful, better safe than sorry.

The packages included in this recall are:

- 5 oz Craisins® UPC: 00293-000
Best-by dates (ONLY THESE DATES FOLLOWED BY THE LETTER “M” ARE AFFECTED):
Oct 27 2012 M

- 10 oz Craisins® UPC: 29456-000 and 29464-000

Best-by dates (ONLY THESE DATES FOLLOWED BY THE LETTER “M” ARE AFFECTED):

Oct 27 2012 M

Oct 28 2012 M

Oct 29 2012 M

- 48 oz Craisins® UPC: 00678-318

Best By Dates (ONLY THESE DATES FOLLOWED BY THE LETTER “M” ARE AFFECTED):

Oct 27 2012 M

Oct 28 2012 M

Nov 3 2012 M

Nov 4 2012 M

Nov 5 2012 M

Nov 6 2012 M

Nov 7 2012 M

Nov 10 2012 M

Nov 11 2012 M

- 10 lb bulk ingredient & foodservice UPC: 03477-000

Best By Dates (ONLY THESE DATES FOLLOWED BY THE LETTER “M” ARE AFFECTED):

30 Oct 2013 M

31 Oct 2013 M

1 Nov 2013 M

5 Nov 2013 M

If you have one of the recalled packages of  Original Flavor Craisins®, Ocean Spray recommends that you destroy the package, save the UPC label and best-by date and contact the Ocean Spray Consumer Hotline at 1-800-662-3263 for a coupon replacement.