Fiesta Garden Fresh Salsa Pineapple Recalled for Listeria Risk
Cool Creations, LLC is recalling Fiesta Garden Fresh Salsa, Pineapple, due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The product was distributed in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
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 agency classification is FDA Class I, which mandates a severity score of 5 according to the rubric.
Plain-English summary
Cool Creations, LLC is recalling 30 cases of Fiesta Garden Fresh Salsa, Pineapple, packaged in 16-oz. plastic containers. The product is distributed by Vanscoy Industries in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and carries UPC 829595000079. The recall involves lot numbers 12201 through 12207, with a last use-by date of August 30, 2012.
The recall was initiated because the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Direct distribution of the affected units was made to Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Consumers who have purchased this product should check their lot numbers and use-by dates. If the product matches the recalled description, consumers should discard it or return it to the place of purchase.
The recalled product
- Product
- Fiesta garden Fresh Salsa, Pineapple, packaged in 16-oz. plastic containers, 6 per case, UPC 829595000079. Distributed by Vanscoy Industries, Cedar Rapids, IA.
- Manufacturer
- Cool Creations, LLC
- Category
- Food — Salsa
- 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)
- Lot numbers 12201 thru 12207 (last use by date affected is 8/30/2012)
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 19 recalled by Cool Creations, LLC 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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