Recall Roundup: January 26, 2011

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

United States

• Food Safety Recall: State Garden (Chelsea, MA) recalls all salad products and blends produced in the company’s plant on January 4, 2011 (trace back codes 45693 and 45703) due to a risk of Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The recalled products were distributed to retail stores on the East Coast under the brand names: Gold Quality, Hannaford, Natures Place, Natures Promise, Roche Bros., Northeast Fresh, Noreast Fresh, Olivia’s Organics, Signature and Wegmans. Natures Promise salad products were available in Stop & Shop and Giant Food stores and have been recalled by those retail chains.
• Food Safety Recall: The Hawaii Department of Health recalls more than one hundred specialty products manufactured at the First Commercial Kitchen processing plant and has issued a Notice of Permit Suspension and Order to Cease and Desist after recent inspections by the state and the FDA showed evidence of improper manufacturing standards. This action follows an earlier recall of two products due to concerns about the potential growth of Clostridium botulinum.
• Alcohol Swab Recall Update: Pfizer Inc. and Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. are alerting U.S. patients that Triad Group Alcohol Prep Pads packaged for use with the kit presentation Relistor® Subcutaneous Injection have been recalled by the manufacturer and should not be used. Patients should substitute an alcohol preparation pad from a company other Triad, or use a sterile gauze pad with isopropyl alcohol.
• FDA Warning Letter: FDA warns Newman’s Fish Markets, Inc. (Portland, OR) that an August 2010 inspection of the company’s seafood processing facility revealed serious violations of the seafood HACCP regulation and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation for food.
• FDA Warning Letter: FDA warns Healthy Choice Island Blends, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) that a September 2010 inspection of the company’s manufacturing facility revealed serious deviations from the juice HACCP regulation and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation for food.
• FDA Warning Letter: FDA warns National Federation of Fisheries Co-Operatives (Seoul, South Korea) that the firm is in serious violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.