August Food Recall Roundup
It's hard to enjoy the foodie world when you are too busy worrying whether or not your lovely picnic hamburger is going to make you or your family ill.
August has been a booming month for food recalls and I thought a regular feature rounding up the worst of the recalls would benefit us all.
The egg recall is first and foremost on our minds, with over 1500 cases of salmonella poisoning known. A full list of the brands that are involved can be found at the FDA site.
Fruiti Pops, Inc. of Santa Fe Springs, CA, has recalled its Fruiti Pops 4oz. Mamey frozen fruit bars due to a potential health risk from Salmonella typhi.This is actually a form of Typhoid fever, believe it or not, that can be passed along in food.
Snow White Food Products Inc., located in Brooklyn, New York, is recalling certain packages of "Alfalfa Sprouts" due to the presence of salmonella. Alfalfa sprouts are notoriously hard to wash properly and contaminated sprouts pose an incredible health risk.
A whopping 8,500 pounds of ground beef from Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. has been recalled. These were sold under different brand names at BJ Wholesale Club stores mainly in Connecticut and Maryland. E.coli cases possibly linked to this beef in New York state and Maine have also been reported. The packages would have an ‘establishment number’ of “EST 9400″ inside the USDA marker and were produced on June 11.
Zemco, a subsidiary of giant Tyson Foods Inc, recalled an unbelievable 380,000 pounds of deli meat products distributed to Wal-Mart stores nationwide after a retail sample from Georgia tested positive for Listeria
And for those of us with beloved dogs, the Iams Pet Food Company has recalled several brands of their pet food for salmonella contamination. The brands are Iams Veterinary Dry Formulas, Eukenuba Custom Care Sensitive Skin, Eukenuba Naturally Wild, and Eukenuba Pure. The affected dry food packages have “best by” dates of 01Jul10 through 01Dec10.
You can sign up for FDA email updates to get the latest recalls as soon as they happen and visit the FDA site itself to look at the full list of recalls.
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