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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.

Europe

  • Allergy Alert (UK): Hovis withdraws 6 Hovis Pancakes (Best before: all date codes up to 31 January 2011), because the product may contain undeclared egg.
  • Food Safety Recall (Ireland): The Food Safety Authority of Ireland advises that Mas-River Fried Dace with Salted Black Beans (184g tin can; Best before 30.04.2013; Product of Malaysia) has been recalled due to high levels of histamine)
  • Food Safety Recall (Denmark): Gasa Odense Frugt-Grønt Snitteri recalls Gourmet Salad Ready Chopped Salad Mix (Best before 25.01.2011 and 26.01.2011) because a sample of the salad was found to contain Salmonella.
  • Food Safety Recall (Italy): F.lli Panizzi S.a.s. recalls Yogurt alla fragola Vallée Blanche (Lot #17/02/2011) because the product may contain glass fragments.

 

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.

Recall Roundup: January 18, 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 (Update): Columbus Meat (906 Randolph, Chicago, IL) expands its earlier recall to include an additional 580 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
  • FDA Warning Letter: FDA warns Azteca Linda Corp, d.b.a. Queso El Azteca (Brooklyn, NY) that June 2010 and August/September 2010 inspections of the company’s cheese manufacturing facility revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in multiple areas of the processing facility environment, and serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation for food. These violations and the finding of a recurrent strain of Listeria monocytogenes in the processing facility caused the company’s ready-to-eat cheese products to be adulterated.
  • FDA Enforcement Action: FDA has obtained a consent decree of permanent injunction against Deltex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Rosenberg, TX). The consent decree permanently prohibits/stops the company, its president and its vice-president from manufacturing and distributing drug products until Deltex’s operations and products are in compliance with federal law. In addition, the company must recall drugs that were manufactured and distributed since October 31, 2008.
Canada
  • Food Safety Recall: KRAZY CMAK (6275 Somerled Ave., Montreal, QC) recalls Atlantic Smoked Salmon/Saumon Atlantique Fumé (all vacuum packages carrying a packaging date prior to January 6, 2011) because the expiration date shown on the package does not provide assurance of safety.
Europe
  • Allergy Alert (Sweden): ICA withdraws ICA Grill Chips Barbecue Potato Crisps (300g), because the chips contain undeclared milk protein.
  • Food Safety Recall (Denmark): Magnihill recalls Scan brand frozen raspberries (Lot ID D33102; lot #03022809) because the product is suspected to contain norovirus.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.0054): Unsuitable organoleptic characteristics (unpleasant taste) of dates from Iran; distributed to the Czech Republic.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.0055): Norovirus in oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from France; distributed to Denmark.
  • Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2011.0056): Migration of formaldehyde from melamine bowl from China; distributed to the United Kingdom.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU#2011.0057): Glass fragment in fruit juice smoothie from Germany; distributed to Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
  • Animal Feed Safety Notification (EU #2011.0058): Prohibited substance chloramphenicol in vitamin A / D3 premix from China; distributed to Germany, Ireland, Poland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
  • Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2011.0059): Migration of primary aromatic amines from kitchen ustensil sets from China, via Belgium; distributed to France.
  • Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.0060): Unauthorized abamectin in corned beef from Brazil; distributed to the United Kingdom.

Australia and New Zealand

  • Allergy Alert (Australia): Woolworths Supermarkets Ltd. recalls Woolworths Home Brand Crumbed Fish Lemon Flavoured Frozen Portions (500g cardboard box; product of China; all expiration dates from 17/02/2012 to 23/03/2012 inclusive), because the product many contain undeclared peanuts. The recalled frozen fish was sold in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.
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.

Recall Roundup: January 15, 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: Colorado Meat Packers (Denver, CO) recalls 2,234 pounds of beef trim that was improperly labeled and potentially adulterated. The recalled trim was produced on December 2, 2010 and sent to a federal establishment in Colorado for further processing.
  • Food Safety Recall (Expansion): One Great Burger (Elizabeth, NJ) expands its January 10, 2011 recall to include an undetermined amount of additional ground beef products that may have become spoiled. The recalled products were produced between April 2010 and May 2010 and were distributed to grocery stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
  • Alcohol Swab/Pad Safety Recall (Update): Genentech, Inc. advises patients and healthcare providers that the Triad alcohol prep pads enclosed in its Boniva Injection, Fuzeon, Nutropin A.Q. Pen, Pegasys, and TNKase medicines should not be used. The alcohol prep pads were recalled by Triad Group due to possible contamination with Bacillus cereus.
  • OTC Pharmaceutical Product Safety Recall: McNeil Consumer Healthcare (Fort Washington, PA) recalls at the wholesale level certain lots of Tylenol® 8 Hour, Tylenol® Arthritis Pain, and Tylenol® upper respiratory products, and certain lots of Benadryl®, Sudafed PE® and Sinutab® products distributed in the United States, the Caribbean and Brazil, after a review of past production records found instances where equipment cleaning procedures were insufficient or that cleaning was not adequately documented. In addition, McNeil is recalling at the wholesale level certain production lots of Rolaids® Multi-Symptom Berry Tablets distributed in the United States in order to update the labeling.
Canada
  • Allergy Alert Expanded: Mocaroma (Canada) Ltd. expands its earlier recall of Dai Pai Dong brand No Sugar Added Instant Soya Milk to include all Best Before dates. The recalled product, which was distributed in Ontario, contains undeclared milk.
  • Food Safety Recall: Circle City Marketing and Distributing, d.b.a. Candy Dynamics (Indianapolis, IN) has recalled all lots and flavors of Toxic Waste® brand Nuclear Sludge® Chew Bars (imported from Pakistan), after the California Department of Public Health found elevated lead levels in lot #8288A of the cherry flavor. The recalled products may have been distributed nationally in Canada.
  • Alcohol Swab/Pad Safety Recall (Update): Bowers Medical Ltd. recalls alcohol swabsticks, swabs and prep pads manufactured by Triad Group (all lot numbers). In addition, Bowers is recalling lubricating jelly (all lot numbers beginning with 7, 8, 9 and 0) manufactured by Triad group.
Europe
  • Food Safety Recall (France): Lidl recalls three-color peppers in bags – poivrons tricolores en sachets – (lot L-01-05 TUTW), imported from Spain and sold in Lidl stores between January 11 and January 14th. The recalled peppers contain ethephon residues in excess of the legal limit.
Latin America and the Caribbean
  • OTC Pharmaceutical Product Safety Recall: McNeil Consumer Healthcare (Fort Washington, PA) recalls at the wholesale level certain lots of Tylenol® 8 Hour, Tylenol® Arthritis Pain, and Tylenol® upper respiratory products, and certain lots of Benadryl®, Sudafed PE® and Sinutab® products distributed in the United States, the Caribbean and Brazil, after a review of past production records found instances where equipment cleaning procedures were insufficient or that cleaning was not adequately documented.
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.