Garden Toad, you want food recalls? I get a list emailed to me every few days. Ready, or not, here you go:
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued an update on the nationwide recall of frozen mamey fruit pulp for Salmonella Typhi contamination yesterday, adding a second company's frozen mamey pulp product

  • Another Iowa producer Friday recalled a massive amount of eggs--this latest recall is for 170 million eggs sold under several brand names in at least 14 states.

  • Two companies recalled pistachios for potential Salmonella contamination this week. AustiNuts Wholesale, Inc., of Manor, Texas, recalled its pistachio kernel products and GloryBee Foods, Inc., of Eugene, Oregon, recalled its Aunt Patty's brand 5 pound bags of Whole Raw Pistachios and 25 pound boxes of Specialty Commodities brand Whole Raw Pistachios Kernels after the companies' supplier, California Delights, Inc., recalled 2 shipments of pistachio kernels for possible Salmonella contamination.

  • The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets announced this week that Snow White Food Products of Brooklyn, NY, was recalling alfalfa sprouts for potential Salmonella contamination.

  • In an Aug. 13 warning letter to Juice Pac Inc., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the juice processing facility must achieve the 5-log reduction in microorganisms in its juice concentrates. A "5-log reduction" means lowering the number of microorganisms by 100,000-fold, meaning if a surface has 100,000 pathogenic microbes on it, a 5-log reduction would reduce the number of microorganisms to one.

...and a major NorCal grocer is being sued because a meat merchandiser instructed an hourly to sell dungeness crabs "until they smell." Said employee reported the merchandiser and the grocer to the FDA and was terminated. (You can't make this stuff up!)

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