Garden-Fresh Ranch Pasta Salad Recalled for Listeria Risk
Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling 5 lb. Ranch Pasta Salad because it contains onions potentially 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 score of 4, and the presence of Listeria monocytogenes, a high-risk pathogen, in a ready-to-eat product typically warrants the highest severity rating in the absence of mitigating factors.
Plain-English summary
Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. is recalling Garden-Fresh Ranch Pasta Salad, 5 lb. The recall involves 2,240 lbs of the product. The recall is due to the use of onions that were recalled by Gills Onions for potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
The affected product is identified by the code 2202 and dates ranging from 8/13/2012 to 8/15/2012. The product was distributed in Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Consumers who have this product in their possession should stop using it and return it to the place of purchase or dispose of it. The recall is part of a broader effort to remove products containing the affected onions from the market.
The recalled product
- Product
- Garden-Fresh Ranch Pasta Salad, 5 lb., 0 11596 52202 9
- 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)
- Garden-Fresh Ranch Pasta Salad
- 2202
- 8/13/2012-8/15/2012
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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