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 An "extra creamy" variety of butter was recently recalled due to coliform bacteria, raising alarms about potential fecal contamination.

The recall applied to one lot of 8-ounce Cabot Creamery Extra Creamy Sea-Salted Premium Butter. The products were distributed by Agri-Mark.

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) reported that 189 cases, or 1,701 pounds, of the product were recalled beginning March 26. The impacted products contain the lot code 090925-055.

Agri-Mark told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that only 17 packages, or 8.5 pounds, of the product were sold in retail stores, and all those stores were located in Vermont.

According to the company, 99.5% of the tainted butter was recovered before reaching consumers. 

The FDA's website notes that the butter was also distributed in New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Arkansas.

The recall does not currently pose a significant public health threat. The recall is labeled as Class III by the FDA, its lowest category.

The FDA has classified this event as a Class III recall reserved for products that are not likely to cause adverse health consequences," Agri-Mark said in a statement.

Agri-Mark reported that 99.5% of the recalled dairy products were recovered before reaching consumers. (iStock)

"There have been no reported complaints or illnesses related to this product."

In an additional statement to Fox News Digital, Agri-Mark emphasized that recall was "very limited" and "voluntary."

"Agri-Mark has identified the cause and has taken the appropriate internal actions to address it," the company added, emphasizing that no other products were affected by the incident.

The butter was distributed to New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Arkansas and Vermont. (iStock)

"Agri-Mark is dedicated to food safety and producing quality products and is always monitoring its products for compliance," the company added.

There have been a variety of news reports that are incomplete and have dramatically misrepresented this recall with respect to the risk it posed to consumers."

The recalled butter contained a type of bacterium found in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals. (iStock)

Fox News Digital reached out to Cabot Creamery for additional comment but did not immediately hear back.

 Overnight, Dan Trachtenberg became the Predator whisperer. His Comanche action-horror prequel Prey breathed life into the uneven franchise, and its success opened the door to pitch future entries. One idea became Predator: Badlands, which is slotted for a November 7th, 2025 release date (with new details coming out of CinemaCon this past weekend). But what if I told you Trachtenberg completed another Predator film in secret that’ll be available before we enter the Badlands?

Because that’s the truth, and Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive first details.

Predator: Killer of Killers is a three-part animated anthology that showcases Yautja warriors hunting human prey across global history. It’ll premiere as a Hulu exclusive on June 6th, 2025. The voice cast includes Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa, Rick Gonzalez, and Michael Biehn.

Here’s the official synopsis with all the glorious details:

“Predator: Killer of Killers, an original animated action-adventure film set in the Predator universe, will premiere June 6th, 2025, exclusively on Hulu. The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause. But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers.”

It’s a brilliant concept that passionate fans have long pondered since Predators can interrupt any era. Maybe King Arthur’s Camelot guard versus Predators or Blackbeard’s crew firing cannonballs at Predators. Wherever worthy adversaries exist, a Predator might challenge for dominance. Trachtenberg was so in love with the project that he co-directed alongside Josh Wassung (from animation company The Third Floor) while on location for Predator: Badlands. “We were writing the script for [Killer of Killers] while we were prevising stuff on [Badlands], and then [once on location] in New Zealand, on the way to shoot [Badlands], we would remote with everyone back here and [watch footage] thanks to Starlink.” 

When asked why on Earth he’d make two films at once, Trachtenberg chuckled and admitted, “This all was like a game of hopscotch…That was dumb. I hope I don’t do it again.”

Oh, I should probably tell you that I was lucky enough to watch the first twenty-ish minutes of Predator: Killer of Killers with Trachtenberg in attendance. That spanned the icy Viking revenge arc in its entirety, which, let me confirm, doesn’t lose a lick of Predator signatures through illustration versus a gore-forward, practical effects showcase. The spectacle of action sequences and brutal kill shots reminds me of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, Warner Bros. Animation’s hyper-violent and bone-shattering animated franchise starter. Another journalist quickly pointed out how the visual design resembles Netflix’s Arcane (complimentary), which Trachtenberg cited as an artistic inspiration.

Within the world of YouTube influencers, Piper Rockelle and her “squad” weren’t doing anything too radical. Rockelle and her friends filmed multiple videos a day where they sometimes attempted extreme “challenges,” pranked each other and posted “crush” content about their latest romantic interests and dramas.

But here was the rub: These burgeoning stars, with millions of followers, were all minors. And behind the scenes, they were allegedly being abused by Rockelle’s mother and manager, Tiffany Smith, as an explosive civil lawsuit from 11 former members of the “squad” alleged in 2022.

That story is now the subject of a Netflix documentary series, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, which releases on the platform on Wednesday. The series uses interviews with former “squad” members and their parents to weave the story of a former child pageant star and her “momager” rising to YouTube fame with the help of a circle of fellow child performers. As profits poured in, these kidfluencers allegedly logged punishing working without appropriate compensation while being subjected to emotional and occasionally sexual abuse from Smith.

Smith and director and editor Hunter Hill denied wrongdoing as part of a $1.85 million settlement with the 11 teens reached in 2024. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Smith and Hill’s attorney for comment.

Bad Influence is the latest in a number of projects exploring the murky world of social media fiefdoms predicated on videos about children, a list that includes Hulu’s An Update on Our Family and Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke.

In an interview, co-directors Kief Davidson and Jenna Rosher discussed the dangers of YouTube stardom for children, addressed a recent critique of these “kidfluencer” documentaries and spoke about the measures they took to work with minors on the series.

How did you first come across the story of Piper Rockelle and her “squad”?

Kief Davidson: I came across this story a while back. There was a lawsuit that was already getting a good amount of coverage in the press, and it was about these 11 families that were all suing Piper’s mom, Tiffany. For me as a filmmaker and also as a parent, I immediately thought that there was a big story here to tell. The first thing I did was I talked to my own kid about the story, thinking that he would fully embrace the idea. His response was, “If you do this, I’ll be so angry at you.” He’s like, “Well, do you know how hard these influencers work to make money?” So it really became sort of a door opener for a conversation between the two of us about the dark side of this and realize that this was such a great opportunity for parents and kids to connect.

How open did you find these former child influencers and their parents when it came to appearing in this series?

Davidson: The first thing we did after reading the article [about the lawsuit] was we contacted the lawyer of the families. That ultimately launched what would be close to an eight-month process of us trying to gain the trust of the families, to get them to understand what kind of project we were making. The families were already getting some heat over this because some of the reporting that was out there was [concerning] how could you put your kids in the situation to begin with? So there was a lot of concerns on their side about how do we do this without making things worse for [their] kids. They saw the greater good in this, but it was a long process getting them to understand what our point of view was, that we weren’t making a reality show on this and this was really going to be [their] forum to be able to put this message out there and bring awareness to an industry that people know very little about.

What ages were the members of the “squad” when you interviewed them?

Jenna Rosher: A few of them are adults, a few of them are minors. And we approached that with a lot of care. We went into it trying to create a space where they felt safe and could be heard. And spending months building the trust and really earning the trust and providing support, training, anything that they needed in having to revisit these moments in their life. But it was matched with such courage and, from these kids, a real strong desire to tell their story. Their biggest mission was to not have any kid go through what they went through. They felt really strongly about getting it out.

 Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and Boston Red Sox pitching icon Pedro Martinez says he had family members who were at the Dominican Republic nightclub when the roof collapsed on Tuesday, killing at least 113 people.

“I still have family members that are still in the [rubble] and we don’t know what happened to them but we just want to be strong, like we have always been,” Martinez said in an Instagram post.