Garden-Fresh Foods Recalls Salads and Dips for Listeria Risk
Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling ready-to-eat salads, slaw, and dips, including Archer Farms Vanilla Creme Dip, due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class I
Class I is a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
This is the agency’s own classification, taken from its notice. The severity score below is our assessment, not the agency’s. How recall classes work
What this means for you
Our assessment, not the agency’s: severity 5/5 (Critical).
Highest-severity recall. The hazard can cause serious injury or death. Stop using the product now and follow the agency's instructions.
Our severity reasoning: The source text explicitly identifies the agency classification as 'Class I' and the hazard as Listeria monocytogenes, which meets the rubric criteria for a Critical severity score (FDA Class I).
Plain-English summary
Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. is recalling various ready-to-eat salads, slaw, and dip products sold under multiple brands and codes. The recall includes Archer Farms Vanilla Creme Dip (Product Code 0 85239 99014 8, 6/12 oz). The total quantity involved is 1,159,754.46 pounds across all varieties.
The products are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The affected products were distributed in California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The specific product code 0 85239 99014 8 corresponds to production dates between November 10, 2013, and November 15, 2013.
Consumers should check their pantries for these specific products and stop consuming them if they match the recalled descriptions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has classified this as a Class I recall, indicating a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, the violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
The recalled product
- Product
- Archer Farms Vanilla Creme Dip, Product Code 0 85239 99014 8, 6/12 oz
- Manufacturer
- Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.
- Hazard
Is your product affected?
Check your packaging against the codes below. If any of them match, the product is part of this recall.
Lot numbers (1)
- 0 85239 99014 8 = 11/10/2013 - 11/15/2013
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 213 recalled by Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.
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