Latest Food & Product Recalls

[MadamSarcastra]

Trade Joe’s Announces More Listeria-Related Food Recalls

Frozen Food Fears: 4 Things To Know About The Listeria Recall

Costco recalls frozen goods over listeria worries

 

[MadamSarcastra]

@Blobbenstein posted: Hill’s Pet Nutrition recalls cat food and issues warning to pet owners due to 'vomiting risk' 'Vomit-inducing' cat food recalled as owners warned NOT to feed it to felines

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Figured I'd post this here rather than start a new thread... I think it fits, considering the several spinach & veggie scares of late.
Even though I get the so-called "triple-washed" greens, I'm gonna see if Jerry will let me have his salad spinner. LOL
Here's why salad greens are always labeled 'triple-washed' at the grocery store

 

[MadamSarcastra]

FDA Says Processing Plant Linked to Massive Listeria Outbreak Is Impossible to Clean

 

[MadamSarcastra]

New Salmonella case has FDA pondering internet recall issues | Food Safety News

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2016/05/27/kroger-vegetable-recall-grows.html

Listeria-Linked Frozen Food Recall Affects All 50 States

 

[PTree15]

Big-time recall of several General Mills flours.

General Mills Issues Massive Recall For Gold Medal Flour


I just bought some flour, so I guess I will have to check. I received an automated phone call from my grocery store about this as well. Blah.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Checking mine now.... Nope, I most recently bought Immaculate Organic All-Purpose Flour. LOL

@PTree15 -- Thanks for the heads-up!

 

[PTree15]

You are welcome, MadamSarcastra. I checked mine and it's OK, as it didn't have a better-if-used-by date that was on the list. Whew.

 

[Andy_T]

Meat recall in Germany due to Listeria contamination.

You might be wondering why I am putting this here?
Well, that meat company also produces a number of vegetarian and vegan cold cuts that are also affected

So ... are vegan meat alternatives safer if they are produced by vegetarian/vegan companies?
Honestly, I don't know, but it would make sense.....

 

[PTree15]

It's getting scarier to go food shopping anymore. The amount of recalls and contamination is astounding in the last few years.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

I couldn't find specific information regarding how many FDA inspectors there are per state, how many facilities, etc... But I stumbled upon this interesting passage from

How to Become a U.S. Food and Drug Inspector

"Some of the incidental but necessary tasks of Federal Inspectors are as follows: Hunting up boxes and other shipping containers, excelsior -- Excelsior!! --, nails, hammer, marking crayon and other promiscuous paraphernalia -- -- necessary for the proper packing and shipping of samples:"

Thought that was hilarious.... I'll keep hunting for those numbers, though. I know inspectors are stretched incredibly thin, but I'd like to get exact figures.

 

[ledboots]

Omg you always make me laugh so hard, MadameS! [emoji170]

 

[shyvas]

Big-time recall of several General Mills flours.

General Mills Issues Massive Recall For Gold Medal Flour


I just bought some flour, so I guess I will have to check. I received an automated phone call from my grocery store about this as well. Blah.

That is clever. I suppose that you have some kind of loyalty cc with the shop. I often wonder about people that have bought contaminated food and do hear about the food recalls. It's not something that is really wildly publicised.

 

[Joe]

"Some of the incidental but necessary tasks of Federal Inspectors are as follows: Hunting up boxes and other shipping containers, excelsior -- Excelsior!! --, nails, hammer, marking crayon and other promiscuous paraphernalia -- -- necessary for the proper packing and shipping of samples:"

Excelsior is a fancy term for wood shavings, which used to be used as packing material before the advent of bubble wrap and styrofoam "peanuts."

It has a different meaning in Latin.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Excelsior is a fancy term for wood shavings, which used to be used as packing material before the advent of bubble wrap and styrofoam "peanuts."

It has a different meaning in Latin.

I know. I was just bein' silly... and givin' a shout-out to Stan Lee. Jeepers, Joe.... LOL

 

[Joe]

I know. I was just bein' silly... and givin' a shout-out to Stan Lee. Jeepers, Joe.... LOL

Yes, that's fine. But Lee was using the term in its Latin meaning, which is something like "ever upward!"

Bullpen Bulletins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[MadamSarcastra]

 

[PTree15]

That is clever. I suppose that you have some kind of loyalty cc with the shop. I often wonder about people that have bought contaminated food and do hear about the food recalls. It's not something that is really wildly publicised.

I do, indeed. My store wasn't on the list of places it was sold, but I could have bought it elsewhere, so I was happy to get the call. That's how I initially heard about it. It then was on the news that night.

 

[Amy SF]

Recalls Consumer Products

 

[Amy SF]

Sunflower Seed Listeria Recall Roundup