Garden-Fresh Greek Style Pasta Salad Recalled for Listeria Risk
Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling Greek Style Pasta Salad products due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination in onions.
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 4/5 (Severe).
The hazard poses a serious risk of illness, injury, or structural failure. Stop using the product immediately and contact the manufacturer for a refund or repair.
Our severity reasoning: The agency classification is FDA Class I, which mandates a minimum severity score of 4 per the rubric.
Plain-English summary
Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. is recalling specific lots of Copperwood Kitchens Greek Style Pasta Salad and Garden-Fresh Greek Style Pasta Salad. The recall involves 5-pound packages of these products.
The recall is being conducted because the salads contain onions that were recalled by Gills Onions due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The affected products were distributed in Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Consumers should check their pantries for the specific product codes and dates listed in the recall notice. If they have these products, they should stop using them and follow the instructions provided by the recalling firm or the FDA.
The recalled product
- Product
- Copperwood Kitchens Greek Style Pasta Salad 5 lbs. 8 11839 01032 6 Garden-Fresh Greek Style Pasta Salad 5 lbs. 0 11596 52035 3
- 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 (3)
- Copperwood Kitchens Greek Style Pasta Salad
- 8103
- 8/16/2012 Garden-Fresh Greek Style Pasta Salad 2035 8/13/2012-8/17/2012
Distribution
Part of a larger recall action
This product is one of 94 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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