Garden-Fresh Foods Recalls Bread Pudding and Salads for Listeria Risk
Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling specific bread pudding, salad, and dip products manufactured before November 6, 2013, 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, which mandates a score of 5 according to the rubric.
Plain-English summary
Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling various cut vegetables, ready-to-eat salads, slaw, spread, and dip products sold under multiple brands. The recall also includes Finest Traditions and Garden-Fresh Baked Bread Pudding products. These items were manufactured prior to November 6, 2013, and are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The affected products were distributed in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The total quantity involved is 919,616.31 pounds. Specific code dates for the bread pudding products range from November 21, 2013, to December 10, 2013, and from November 27, 2013, to December 7, 2013.
Consumers should check their pantries for these products and discard them or return them to the place of purchase. The FDA classifies this as a Class I recall, which is the most serious type of recall.
The recalled product
- Product
- Finest Traditions, Baked Bread Pudding, 1/7 lb., 10 733147 10099 5, 11/21/2013 - 12/10/2013; Garden-Fresh, Baked Bread Pudding, 6/12 oz., 0 11596 07034 6, 0 11596 07034 6, 11/27/2013 - 12/7/2013;
- Manufacturer
- Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.
- Category
- Food — Deli / Ready-to-Eat
- 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 (4)
- 10 733147 10099 5
- 11/21/2013 - 12/10/2013
- 0 11596 07034 6
- 11/27/2013 - 12/7/2013
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 255 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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