Fresh Ideas Costa Multiple Bean Salad Recalled for Listeria
Fresh Ideas Inc. is recalling Costa Multiple Bean Salad because the product contains recalled Gill's Onions contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
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 minimum severity score of 4, and the presence of Listeria monocytogenes, a high-risk pathogen, in a ready-to-eat food product elevates the risk to Critical (5) per the rubric for known high-risk pathogens.
Plain-English summary
Fresh Ideas Inc. is recalling 95 cases of Costa Multiple Bean Salad, 4.5 lbs Poly Tub (Item #01407). The recall is necessary because the product contains recalled Gill's Onions that are contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The affected product was distributed in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey. The use-by dates for the recalled items are July 26, 2012, July 31, 2012, and August 2, 2012.
Consumers who have this product in their possession should stop using it and dispose of it or return it to the place of purchase.
The recalled product
- Product
- Costa Multiple Bean Salad 4.5 lbs Poly Tub (Item #01407) Black Beans (black beans, water. salt, calcium chloride, ferrous gluconate), Kidney Beans (kidney beans, water. salt, CaCI2), Black Eyed Peas(blackeye peas. water, sail. calcium chloride and disodium EDTA to preserve…
- Manufacturer
- Fresh Ideas Inc.
- Category
- Food — Canned / Jarred Foods
- Hazard
- Affected units
- 95
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)
- Use By: 7/26/12: 7/31/12
- 8/2/12
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 13 recalled by Fresh Ideas 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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