Consumers, Did You Buy Any of These Recently Recalled Products?

By David Gurliacci (Patch Staff)

Here’s a list of recalls in the past week announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help you monitor whether or not you’ve bought a recalled product that may endanger your or your family’s health or safety.

In some cases, the recalls were voluntarily made by the companies producing the product or by the distributors who bought the products.

Some of the recalls are for lack of notice on the package that nuts or residue from nuts that may have gotten into the products when the same machines were used for different products.

FDA Recalls

The list below shows recalls announced by the FDA in the past week, listed by date, brand name, type of food, reason for the recall (sometimes only a reasonable concern), producer (and stores where sold, when applicable) and with links for additional details and pictures of the recalled products:

• Jan. 16 — Queseria Bendita — Cheese and sour cream — Listeria monocytogenes — Queseria Bendita LLC — — Where: Hispanic grocery stores in Washington and Oregon and the Queseria Bendita’s on-site store in Yakima, WA.
• Jan. 16 — Archer Farms, The Fresh Market — Seasoning — Undeclared peanut— B&M, Inc. — — Where: Target and The Fresh Market stores nationwide
• Jan. 16 — Oma’s Purr — Cat food — Salmonella — Oma’s Pride — — Where: nationwide
• Jan. 16 — Harris Teeter, HT Traders — Seasoning — Undeclared peanut — B&M, Inc. — — Where: At Harris Teeter stores and HT Traders in the southeastern U.S.
• Jan. 18 — Rader Farms — Smoothie blend — Listeria monocytogenes — Inventure Foods, Inc. — — Where: “Fresh Start Smoothie Blendis distributed in 48 oz. (3 lbs.) packages at Costco in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan of Canada. The Fresh Start Sunrise Refresh Fusion and Fresh Start Daily Power Fusion products are distributed in 35 oz. packages at Walmart in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
• Jan. 21 — Gonnella, Jewel — Sub buns, Sandwich Rolls — Undeclared Milk — Gonnella Baking Co. — — Where: distributed to retail grocery stores in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana only.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Recalls

Recalls and withdrawals announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (we’re showing here recalls listed on the department’s website for products sold directly to consumers — not, for instance, products sold to institutions that cook food and serve it to consumers, since consumers can’t then identify where the food originally came from; information on these recalls follows the same pattern as above):

• Jan. 17 — Covap Jamon de Bellota 100% Iberico — pork ham and sliced ham — not presented at U.S. point of entry for inspection — Sociedad Cooperativa Valle de Los Pedroches (producer); Food Club Corp. (importer) — More information here — shipped to customers from California after orders via the Internet
  

• Jan. 17 — La Guadalupana — chicken tamales — not produced under various health regulations — La Guadalupana Wholesale, Inc. — More information here — sold in Chicago

• Jan. 17 — Sabor Food — pepper steak, beef and potato stew, chicken fricassee, beef picadillo — cumin spice from a supplier may have been contaminated with peanut allergens — Sentry Food Solutions — More information here — Walmart stores in Florida are the only stores known to have received the products, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says other retailers elsewhere may also have received them.
  

• Jan. 20 — Twix Bismark — Doughnuts — Undeclared peanut — Northern Tier Bakery LLC — More information here — between Jan. 1 and Jan. 14 at convenience stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin

• Jan. 21 — Chopped Twix — candy topping — Undeclared peanuts and eggs — Tarrier Foods — More information here — distributed to wholesale warehouses in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Florida where it was distributed to food services

• Jan. 21 — “Les Trois Petits Cochons Rillettes De Pork” in French and “The Three Little Pigs Pork Rillettes” in English — pork rillettes (similar to a pâté) — not presented at U.S. point of entry for inspection — House of Bricks Realty, Inc. — More information here — shipped to distributors for further sale to consumers anywhere in the country

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