FDA Recalls Cheese, Smoked Salmon, Eggs and More
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Health and safety are important issues facing parents. Here are FDA food and product recall updates on Rolaids, Tylenol, Benadryl, Motrin, eggs, cheese and others. The FDA has created a free printable Holiday Food Safety Success Kit, too. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA.gov) has created several Holiday Food Safety resources, including a free printable Holiday Food Safety Success Kit and two Holiday Food Safety videos, one in English and one in Spanish.
The FDA keeps consumers current with all food and drug recalls, voluntary and mandatory. It’s is important when tracking recalls to note the purpose of the recall and whether it is at wholesale, retail or consumer level. In some cases, the consumer may continue to use the product. In other cases, evidence of contamination has been found. Some products have undeclared allergens or have been mislabeled. Food and drug recalls of special interest for parents include the following:
* “Rushing Waters Fisheries, Palmyra, is recalling about 225 pounds of smoked trout and smoked salmon spreads, because the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.” (FDA)
* Frontier Natural Products Co-op nutmeg (salmonella)
* McCormick and Company Golden Dipt Fry Easy All Purpose Batter (voluntary recall for unlabeled egg ingredient)
* Mylanta, AlternaGEL Liquid products, TYLENOL Cold Multi-Symptom liquid, Children’s BENADRYL Allergy FASTMELT Tablets and Junior Strength MOTRIN Caplets cherry and grape flavor, Rolaid’s Extra Strength Softchews (Wholesale and Retail recall; no action necessary for consumers, may continue to use)
* Whole Foods Markets and Bravo Farms Cheese (cheese products list here) Evidence of e.coli and Listeria. Also Del Bueno products.
* Krunchers! Jay’s Original Potato Chips (undeclared milk allergen)
* Costco, DPI Specialty Foods Mauri gorgonzola cheese (voluntary recall for possible e. coli contamination)
* Liz Lovely chocolate (undeclared dairy)
* Artisan Confections Dagoba new moon Rich Dark Chocolate (salmonella)
* Duro Extend Capsules for Men (marketed as dietary supplement, contains Sulfoaidenafil (used in treatment of Erectile Dysfunction)
Parents are urged to visit the FDA’s Holiday Food Safety Success Kit page for tips, resources and free printable activities about health and food safety. You’ll find recipes, games, tips and helps. There are free printable shopping lists, food labels, brochures, coloring pages and activity booklets for children. The Holiday Food Safety Videos emphasize the basics of safe food handling in any season, which can be remembered as CSCC:
Clean: Wash hands and surfaces often (use hot water)
Separate: Keep foods separate; don’t cross-contaminate
Cook: Cook to proper internal temperature
Chill: Refrigerate foods promptly.
72,000 pounds of canned chicken salad recalled
(CNN) — The discovery of hard plastic inside packages prompted a nationwide recall of 72,000 pounds of canned chicken salad, one of several recalls involving poultry and meat products issued through U.S. food safety authorities in recent days.
The Suter Company is recalling 8.2-ounce packages of the “Bumble Bee Lunch on the Run Chicken Salad Complete Lunch Kit” and 3.5-ounce packages of “Bumble Bee Chicken Salad with Crackers,” according to a statement released Sunday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
While the company is headquartered in Sycamore, Illinois, its products are sold from coast to coast. The recalled products — which have a August 2011 “best-by” date for the lunch kit, and February 2012 corresponding date for the cracker package — were put together and shipped out to distributors and stores between August 14 and 28 of this year.
The recall was prompted by complaints from people who found pieces of loose plastic inside their Bumble Bee packages. The federal agency noted in its release that it hasn’t received any reports of people getting hurt or sick as a result.
The recall is a Class II, which means there is a “remote probability of adverse health consequences,” according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Meanwhile, two unrelated and separate but potentially more dangerous recalls announced late last week were categorized as Class I, equating to a “reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”
Federal food safety authorities said Friday that Diana’s Mexican Food Products, of Lawndale, California, is recalling 41,670 pounds of chicken tamales.
The tamales contain whey, a known allergen. But the packages don’t note the whey on its labels, said the Food Safety and Inspection Service, potentially imperiling consumers.
The tamales, which went out to restaurants in California, were produced between February and December 2, 2010. There are no known reports of adverse reactions to the undeclared presence of whey, which was discovered by federal authorities in a “routine inspection.”
One day earlier, Brooklyn-based N.Y. Gourmet Salads recalled various meat and poultry products because, prior to their distribution, they hadn’t been inspected by federal health inspectors.
While there have been no reports of sicknesses, a public health alert was issued October 30 for a host of Gourmet Salad’s products packaged between March 11 and October 29 of this year. The recall list includes 12 items — ranging from Swedish meatballs to stuffed cabbage to grilled chicken — all wrapped in 4.5-, 5- and 6-pound packages.
Perfluoroalkyls, which are chemicals used to keep grease from leaking through fast food wrappers, are being ingested by people through their food and showing up as contaminants in blood.
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Dangerous chemicals leak into blood from packaging
Perfluoroalkyls, which are chemicals used to keep grease from leaking through fast food wrappers, are being ingested by people through their food and showing up as contaminants in blood.
Perfluoroalkyls are stable, synthetic chemicals that repel oil, grease, and water. They are used in surface protection treatments and coatings for packages.
The specific chemicals studied were polyfluoroalkyl phosphate esters (PAPs), which are the breakdown products of the perfluorinated carboxylic acids used in coating the food wrappers.
Common Dreams reports:
“The researchers used the PAP concentrations previously observed in human blood together with the PAP and PFCA concentrations observed in the rats to calculate human exposure to the chemical perflurooctanoic acid, PFOA.”
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