My first thought exactly.

It's a protection racket now. Apparently Gatorade didn't make their payment on time.

Yellow that makes you sick.

Not really unless you have a particular sensitivity to the specific food colorings used. Compared to recent recalls this is pretty minor as it's essentially just a mistake on the label rather than any kind of contaminate. I.E. had the labels correctly included the yellow food coloring used this would be perfectly fine to sell and there would be no recall.

Your thirst must be mutilated.

Looks like you only need to worry about it if you need to know which artificial yellow food dye is in it. Looks like they swapped dyes but failed to update the ingredient list on several batches. I'm not dismissing this as harmless though, people with a Yellow number 5 allergy could have been seriously harmed.

Technically, every time the recipe changes, it would need to be inspected and double checked by the FDA (at least that's how it works in the EU).

Probably switched the type of dye. Idk Leatherface at the DHS has been screaming about dyes so maybe he fucked it up again.

Uh... every time? Each and every packaged item on the shelf is supposed to have an accurate list of its ingredients.

That’s how far ahead of time that stuff is bottled. It’s not like it goes bad in a couple of weeks, it’s water + chemicals.

The date is usually printed somewhere in the bottle.