Fresh Creative Foods Lemon Capellini Salad Recalled for Plastic Contamination
Fresh Creative Foods is recalling Lemon Capellini Salad due to hard clear plastic pieces found in the product. The contamination source was traced to ice purchased from a supplier.
What this means for you
Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.
Our severity reasoning: This is an FDA Class II recall for a food product with foreign object contamination that poses a risk of choking or injury if consumed. No illnesses or injuries have been reported, consistent with the rubric criterion for 'risk-of-harm products where injury has not yet been reported,' which scores 3 (High).
Plain-English summary
Fresh Creative Foods is recalling approximately 1,676 cases of Lemon Capellini Salad (2/4.5 LB packages) because hard clear plastic pieces were discovered in the product during manufacturing. Investigation traced the contamination to ice purchased from a supplier.
The affected product is identified by UPC 10013454373672 and Item number 403207, distributed by Fresh Creative Foods in Vista, California. The recalled product has use-by dates of March 22, 2022 and March 25, 2022, with multiple specific lot numbers identified by the FDA.
The product was distributed to customers in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. Consumers should not consume the recalled product. Anyone who has purchased this item should return it to their point of purchase.
The recalled product
- Product
- Fresh Creative Foods LEMON CAPELLINI SALAD 2/4.5 LB Perishable/Keep refrigerated. UPC: 10013454373672 Item number: 403207 Distributed by: Fresh Creative Foods, Vista, CA 92081
- Manufacturer
- RMJV, LP dba Fresh Creative Foods
- Category
- Food — Ready-to-Eat Salad
- Hazard
- foreign-object
- choking-hazard
Distribution
Distributed in 20 states:
- AR
- AZ
- CA
- CO
- FL
- GA
- IL
- IN
- KY
- MN
- MO
- NC
- NV
- OH
- OK
- OR
- SC
- TN
- TX
- WI
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