Category: E. coli

Recalls and Alerts: August 30, 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.

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United States

  • Allergy Alert Update: So Ono Food Products (Honolulu, HI) expands earlier recall to include So Ono Fresh Caesar Salad with Chicken (9.5-oz containers; Use by 09/01/11 through 09/04/11), because the product contains undeclared egg.
  • FDA Warning Letter: FDA warns Northern Boulevard Corporation (Jackson Heights, NY) that an April 2011 inspection of the company’s wholesale distribution facility revealed serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation, and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation for foods.
  • FDA Warning Letter: FDA warns Airline Seafood, Inc. (Houston, TX) that a November 2010 inspection of the company’s seafood processing facility revealed serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation, and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation for foods.
  • Food Recall: Price Chopper recalls Clear Value Oyster Crackers (Lot No. Jan 11, 2012 AB), because of the product’s potential to exhibit odd odors.

Canada

  • Allergy Alert: Simla Foods recalls Asian Delight Butter Chicken Samosa, 400g and Asian Delight Chicken Halal Pakora, 500g, because the products contain undeclared soy.
  • Allergy Alert: Gelatissimo Ltd. recalls Gelato Factory Tiramisu (11.4 L; Lot 2818), because the product contains undeclared egg and wheat.
  • Allergy Alert: QOOLA Holdings recalls Yocream Non-fat New York Style Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt Mix (1.89L; Codes 0391 and 0961), due to the presence of undeclared egg.
  • Food Safety Recall: Afroleck Inc. recalls NDEYE brand Arachide en Poudre Noflaye (300g; Best before 31DE2011) and NDEYE brand Pâte d’arachide Tigadèguè (500g; Best before 30AU2012), because the products contain aflatoxin.

Europe

  • Pharmaceutical Product Safety Recall (UK): Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Ltd. recalls all remaining unexpired stock of Nurofen Plus tablets in any pack size, after receiving reports of rogue bluster strips of Seroquel XL 50mg and Neurontin 100mg tablets in cartons of Nurofen Plus tablets.
  • Food Safety Recall (Sweden): Atria Scandinavia recalls Lithells Hot Dogs (Best before September 17, 18 and 19), after Listeria is found in the product.
  • Food Safety Recall (Sweden): ICA recalls ICA hot dogs (900g and 630g; Best before 14 and 16 September) and Euroshopper hot dogs (900g; Best before 16 September), after Listeria was found during a routine check.
  • Food Safety Recall (Denmark): Gert Nielsen A/S recalls Chopped Pork (approx. 2.5kg; Expiry 22/08/2011) and chopped Svinesmåkød, max 12% (Expiry 20-08-2011), because Salmonella has been found in the product.
  • Outbreak Alert (UK): Six cases of E. coli infections, including five children and one staff member, have been confirmed at the James Cook University Hospital nursery in Middlesbrough.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1162): Salmonella enterica in minced meat from Poland; distributed to Slovakia.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1163): Listeria monocytogenes in chilled smoked salmon from Poland; distributed to Italy.
  • Allergy Alert Notification (EU #2011.1164): Undeclared hazelnut in chocolate sugared almonds from Germany; distributed to Italy.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1165): Deoxynivalenol in wheat flour from Hungary; distributed to Romania.
  • Dietary Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2011.1166): Unauthorized substance dimethylsildenafil in herbal food supplement from the United Kingdom; distributed to Norway.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1167): Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in banana chips from Germany; distributed to Denmark.
  • Dietary Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2011.1168): Lead in silica and zinc capsules from Germany; distributed to Austria and Germany.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1169): Listeria monocytogenes in, and abnormal smell of, chilled smoked halibut from Poland; distributed to Denmark.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1170): Parasitic infestation with Anisakis of chilled Atlantic mackerel from Norway; distributed to Austria, the Czech Republic and Italy.
  • Animal Feed Safety Notification (EU #2011.1171): Cadmium in calcium carbonate from Spain; distributed to Spain.

Australia and New Zealand

  • Medical Device Safety Recall: CooperVision Australia Pty. Ltd. recalls various batches of Avaira Toric Contact Lenses due to the unintended presence of a residue on lenses from certain lots. The problem was discovered as a result of consumer complaints.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket’s recall web site.

*The Kroger umbrella encompasses numerous supermarket, marketplace and convenience store chains, listed on the Kroger corporate home page.
**Includes Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Dominick’s, Genuardi’s, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Carrs and Pak N’ Save.

Recalls and Alerts: August 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.

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United States

  • Allergy Alert: Silva Sausage Co. (Gilroy, CA) recalls 28,782 pounds of Silva Sausage Smoked Chicken Apple Sausage, and Hickory Smoked Chicken with Apples & Sage (Est # P-6086; Various case codes and production dates), due to the presence of undeclared cultured whey. The recalled products were distributed to retail establishments and institutions in the Sacramento and San Luis Obispo (California) areas.
  • Food Safety Recall: Vita Food Products, Inc (Chicago, IL) recalls Vita Classic Premium Sliced Smoked Atlantic Nova Salmon (4-oz pkgs; Sell by date & code of Dec 15 2011 01961B), due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled smoked salmon was sold at Publix stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Safeway stores in California, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia, Meijer stores in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, Vons stores in California, Genuardi’s stores in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Winn Dixie stores in Florida, and the Edgewater Produce store in Chicago, IL on or after July 25, 2011. Some packages also may have been sold at various grocery stores in the Buffalo (NY) and Puttsburgh (PA) metropolitan areas, and in Northeast Ohio.
  • Food Safety Enforcement Action:  U.S. Marshals seized all FDA-regulated food susceptible to rodent and pest contamination or other filth held at the Durham, North Carolina, warehouse of CFSD, Inc., which does business as Chan’s Food Service.  According to FDA’s complaint, the products are adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, because they have been held under insanitary conditions.
  • Boil Water Advisory (Washington State): A Boil-Water Advisory has been issued to customers of the Basin City Water-Sewer District water system, because E. coli were found in the water during routine water quality monitoring.

Canada

  • Allergy Alert Update: Indianlife Food Corporation (Burnaby, BC) recalls Indianlife brand Plain Papadums (120g pkgs; Codes MFG 10249 and MFG 11027), due to the presence of undeclared gluten. This is an expansion of the original Allergy Alert, issued on August 24, 2011.
  • Medical Device Safety Recall: Costco Canada warns its customers that CoopervVision has announce a voluntary recall of certain Encore100 Toric Contact Lenses (Item #277220), purchased  between April 18 and August 23, 2011 at Costco Canada warehouse stores. The recalled lenses may cay temporary hazy or blurry vision or discomfort,most likely caused by transient or reversible swelling of the surface layer of the cornea.
  • Consumer Advisory: Following FDA’s recent Import Alert on papayas imported from Mexico, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is working with authorities in the United States and Mexico to identify any products that have been shipped to Canada. Based on this information, the CFIA will determine if Canada requires additional import controls. There have been two reported illnesses of Salmonella Agona in Canada; both cases were associated with consuming papayas while traveling in Mexico.

Europe

  • Food Safety Recall (UK): Waitrose recalls Waitrose Cook’s Ingredients Pulled Ham Hock (180g; Use by 27, 29 and 31 August 2011) and Waitrose Essential Corned Beef (140g; Use by 2 September 2011), after routine testing detected the presence of Listeria in these products.
  • Food Safety Recall (UK): Asda recalls six flavors of Asda Chosen By You drinks (6 x 300ml bottles; all date codes) because there is a possible risk of choking associated with the sports caps on the bottles.
  • Food Safety Recall (Ireland): East End House recalls East End Coriander Poudre (1kg; Batch code 0313L2B; Best before 09/11/12), due to the presence of Salmonella.
  • Food Alert (Norway): After finding residues of the fungicide procymidon in a random sample of Polish raspberries in stock at Rora Factories AS, the Norway Food Safety Authority has imposed a sales ban on the raw materials and products of the above-mentioned company.
  • Food Safety Recall (Denmark): Odin Seafoods ApS recalls Delicato Smoked Halibut (Batch 2011/0223; Best before 25-08-2011; Product of Poland), after Listeria monocytogenes was found in the product.
  • Food Safety Recall (Denmark): Gert Nielsen A/S recalls several meat products after Salmonella was found in a batch of the raw material.
  • Pharmaceutical Product Safety Recall (UK): Reckitt Benckiser (UK) Ltd. recalls Nurofen Plus Tablets containing rogue Seroquel XL 50mg tablets, after receiving three reports of rogue Seroquel XL 50mg tablets in cartons of the Nurofen Plus.

Australia and New Zealand

  • Food Safety Recall: La Cloche recalls La Cloche Chicken Liver Paté (200-500g packages; Batches dated 19 July 2011 to 28 August 2011), because the paté may be contaminated with Campylobacter. The recalled paté was distributed only through selected La Cloche, Moore Wilsn, Wholly Bagels and Cameron Harrison outlets in the Wellington area.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket’s recall web site.

*The Kroger umbrella encompasses numerous supermarket, marketplace and convenience store chains, listed on the Kroger corporate home page.
**Includes Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Dominick’s, Genuardi’s, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Carrs and Pak N’ Save.

Recalls and Alerts: August 25, 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.

If you would like to receive automatic email alerts for all new articles posted on eFoodAlert, please submit your request using the sidebar link.

United States

  • Allergy Alert: Ajinomoto Frozen Foods (Portland, OR) recalls Aginomoto Brand Vegetable Gyoza Dumplings (8.47 oz. trays; Lot code 231751), due to the presence of undeclared shrimp and fish (pollock). The recalled product was distributed through retail stores and restaurants nationwide.
  • Healthcare Product Safety Recall: H&P Industries, Inc. (Hartland, WI) recalls Povidone Iodine Swabsticks, Povidone Iodine Prep Solutions, Povidone Iodine Scrub Solutions, and Povidone Iodine Prep Gel (all lots beginning with 8J-8M, 9A-9M, 0A-0M, 1A-1C), because the products were manufactured without having in place a system for microbial testing at the time of release, without having a system for testing of incoming components, and without having procedures designed and established to prevent objectionable microorganisms in these products. The products were distributed to healthcare customers nationwide.
  • Outbreak Alert (Texas): TV station KRIS reports that the Nueces County Health Department is now investigating a refrigeration problem at Wings-N-More, a local wing restaurant, after a 2-year old girl spent the last week in the hospital after her mother says she contracted both Salmonella and E. coli.
  • FDA Enforcement Action: At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals, yesterday, seized seafood products manufactured by the Meiko Food Co., South El Monte, Calif., because the products are adulterated. The FDA complaint alleges that Meiko Foods manufactures and packages ready-to-eat seafood balls and fried fish cakes, without having in place a HACCP plan. HACCP plans are mandatory for seafood processors under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The legal action was taken after Meiko ignored repeated FDA warnings.
  • Outbreak Alert/Food Safety Alert Update: FDA issues an Import Alert denying admission of Mexican papayas into the USA unless the importer shows that the produce is not contaminated with Salmonella. The action follows a determination by FDA labs that 15.6 percent of Mexican papaya samples tested between May 12, 2011 and August 18, 2011 were contaminated with Salmonella. The FDA investigation of Mexican papayas was undertaken subsequent to the detection of an outbreak of Salmonella Agona earlier this year that was linked to consumption of papayas from a single importer. According to FDA, more than 100 people in the USA were infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona.

Canada

  • Allergy Alert: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency warns that Indianlife brand Plain Papadums (120g pkg; Mfg 11027; Exp. 20120128) contains undeclared gluten and may cause a serious reaction in persons with sensitivities to glutens. One illness has been reported. The product was distributed in Alberta, BC and Ontario.

Europe

  • Food Safety Recall (Belgium): Delhaize Belgique recalls Organic Table Eggs of varying sizes (6-pkg and 10-pkg; Lot #0-NL-43149; Best by 25/8, 1/9 and 7/9), because the eggs may have been contaminated by dioxin in a Netherlands layer hen facility.
  • Food Safety Recall (Sweden): Scan recalls Sausage (Item #620276; Packaged 2011-07-20; Best before date 2011-08-19), after testing finds traces of Listeria in a sample of the product.
  • Food Safety Recall (Switzerland): Grandi Salumifici Italiani S.p.A. recalls Prosciutto Cotti Di Alta Qualitá cooked, sliced Italian ham (120g; Best if eaten by 20.08.2011; Lot #2129028, IT 172 L CE), because Listeria monocytogenes was detected in the product. The recalled ham was sold in Lidl stores in Switzerland.
  • Dietary Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2011.1153): Unauthorized nor-acetildenafil in food supplements from China, via Hungary; distributed to Norway.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1154): Salmonella in Houttunyia leaves from Vietnam; distributed to the Netherlands.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1155): Salmonella in kinh gioi from Vietnam; distributed to the Netherlands.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1156): Salmonella in piper sarmentosum from Vietnam; distributed to the Netherlands.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1158): Salmonella in parsley from Vietnam; distributed to the Netherlands.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1159): Salmonella in pennywort from Vietnam; distributed to the Netherlands.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1160): Salmonella in sweet basil from Vietnam; distributed to the Netherlands.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.1161): Salmonella San Diego in whole hens ready to cook from France; distributed to Italy.

Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands

  • Herbal Medicine Safety Alert (Singapore): The Health Sciences Authority advises the public to avoid the three herbal medicines sold as Tian Ma Tu Chung Seven Leave Ginseng, Vall-Boon Tongkat Ali, and Pao Ni Kang, because the products have been found to contain potent western medicinal ingredients.

Australia and New Zealand

  • Food Safety Recall (New Zealand): Serra Natural Foods Ltd. recalls Cyclops Organic Sour Cream (200g; Best before 26 September 2011), because the product may contain E. coli. The recalled sour cream was sold in food retail outlets throughout New Zealand.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket’s recall web site.

*The Kroger umbrella encompasses numerous supermarket, marketplace and convenience store chains, listed on the Kroger corporate home page.
**Includes Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Dominick’s, Genuardi’s, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Carrs and Pak N’ Save.