Dollar General Corporation FDA recall records

The FDA has published 28 food recall enforcement records naming Dollar General Corporation between 2016 and 2025, covering 5 separate recall events. The firm is recorded in Tennessee. Data last updated 2 September 2026.

Records of 29,386

28

Share of all recalls

0.1%

Class I of 28

0

Reported between

2016 to 2025

What is different about Dollar General Corporation

The hazard that separates Dollar General Corporation from the national picture is process deviation: 85.7% of these records name it, against 1% of all FDA food recalls.

By product, Dollar General Corporation is weighted toward milk and dairy: 32.1% of the records here against 16.9% across the corpus.

Recalls at Dollar General Corporation skew less severe than the corpus: 0% are Class I against 44% nationally.

These recalls stay local: 3.6% state nationwide distribution, against 20.7% across the corpus.

What these records are

Every record on this page was published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. 28 records cover 5 recall events, because the agency opens one record per product code: a single recall of a product line with many codes appears here many times.

0 of these records are Class I, 27 Class II and 1 Class III. A recall count is not a safety score. Most FDA food recalls are initiated by the firm itself, and a recall is the firm removing product from the market, which is what a food safety plan is built to produce.

What was recalled for

A single record can name more than one hazard, so these counts overlap.

• Process deviation24
• Undeclared allergens1
• Foreign material1
• Spoilage and mould1

By year

Counts are by the date the FDA reported the enforcement action. That date runs behind the date a firm started a recall, so the most recent year is always partial.

Where the recalling firms are

The state is the location of the recalling firm, not where the product was sold. Distribution is recorded separately on each record.

• Tennessee28

Most recently reported

Questions

How many FDA recalls has Dollar General Corporation had?

The FDA has published 28 food recall enforcement records naming Dollar General Corporation between 2016 and 2025. Those records cover 5 separate recall events: the agency opens one record per product code, so one recall of a product line appears as many records.

Does a high recall count mean a firm is unsafe?

Not on its own. Most FDA food recalls are initiated voluntarily by the firm, and a recall is the firm removing product from the market, which is what a working food safety plan is supposed to produce. Record counts also scale with the number of product codes a firm carries rather than with the number of things that went wrong.

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