Garden-Fresh Foods Recalls Cut Vegetables and Salads for Listeria Risk
Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling various cut vegetables, ready-to-eat salads, and dips manufactured before November 6, 2013, due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
The agency’s classification
FDA (Food): Class II
Class II is a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.
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 3/5 (High).
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: The recall involves a high-risk pathogen (Listeria monocytogenes) without reported illness, which corresponds to a score of 3 (High) per 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 various brands. The recall includes products manufactured prior to November 6, 2013. The company is taking this action because the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The recall covers a total of 919,616.31 pounds of product. Distribution was limited to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Specific product details include Finest Traditions Fresh Salsa Mild, 6/11 oz., with code 10 733147 109943 and a date of 12/9/2013.
Consumers who have purchased these products should check their pantries for the specific brands and code dates listed in the official recall notice. If the products are found, consumers should discard them or return them to the place of purchase. Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that can cause serious illness, particularly in pregnant women, newborns, the elderly, and individuals with weakened immune systems.
The recalled product
- Product
- Finest Traditions, Fresh Salsa Mild, 6/11 oz., 10 733147 109943, 12/9/2013;
- Manufacturer
- Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.
- Category
- Food — Cut Vegetables / Salads
- 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 (2)
- 10 733147 109943
- 12/9/2013
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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