Garden Fresh and Market Pantry Potato Salads Recalled for Listeria Risk
Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling specific potato salad products due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination from onions.
What this means for you
Highest-severity recall. Risk of serious injury or death is documented or strongly suspected. Stop using the product now and follow the agency's instructions.
Our severity reasoning: The source metadata explicitly identifies the agency classification as Class I, which mandates a severity score of 5 according to the rubric.
Plain-English summary
Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. is recalling two varieties of reduced fat mustard potato salad: Garden Fresh Reduced Fat Mustard Potato Salad (5 lb.) and Market Pantry Reduced Fat Mustard Potato Salad (16 oz.). The recall is being conducted because the products contain onions that were previously 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. The source text notes that other recalled items, including slaw, salsa, bean, and dips, also contained the affected onions.
Consumers should check their pantries for these specific products and discard them or return them to the place of purchase. The recall is classified as Class I by the FDA, indicating a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, the violative product may cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
The recalled product
- Product
- Reduced Fat Mustard Potato Salads: 1) Garden Fresh Reduced Fat Mustard Potato Salad, 5 lb., 0 11596 51202 0; 2) Market Pantry Reduced Fat Mustard Potato Salad, 16 oz., 0 85239 20016 2
- 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 (8)
- 1) Garden-Fresh
- 1202
- 08/14/12
- 2) Market Pantry
- 200162
- 08/14/12 Acme Homestyle Potato Salad
- 4209
- 8/14/2012-8/17/2012
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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