Editor’s note: Today Food Safety News takes a look back at the most significant recalls in the United States in 2018. As in past years, our year-end coverage is not merely a list of individual stories by individual writers. Generally, significant events are the other way around. Multiple stories by
Continue Reading Recalls show foodborne threats continue
For more than 2 1/2 years, management at the Colton, California facility of McCain Foods USA ignored positive test results for Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella, apparently choosing to ship the potentially contaminated vegetable and fruit products without conducting confirmation tests.
This pattern of behavior was discovered during an internal audit
Continue Reading McCain company officials ignored signs of Salmonella, Listeria contamination
Two food-producers using corn as an ingredient recalled ready-to-eat salad products Friday over possible Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Houston-based GHSW, LLC and Caito Foods, LLC in Indianapolis were among a growing list of companies recalling food out of fear of the dual contaminants.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
Continue Reading Salmonella and Listeria fears about corn prompts two small chicken salad recalls
The USDA today named McCain Foods as the supplier of potentially contaminated corn cited in the string of recalls for a variety of foods from hundreds of retailers in recent days, WalMart, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and 7-Eleven.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service
Continue Reading McCain Foods confirmed as corn supplier behind multiple recalls in U.S.
Grocery retailer Hy-Vee Inc. is recalling some of its meat, poultry, and potato products because they contain mushrooms and tomatoes that McCain Foods has recalled because of potential bacterial contamination.
Hy-Vee officials said in a notice yesterday that McCain Foods recalled the implicated caramelized mushrooms and fire-roasted tomatoes because of
Continue Reading McCain Foods recall causes Hy-Vee to recall meat, poultry, potato products
McCain Foods USA Inc. of Lisle, IL, is recalling 25,215 pounds of bacon fritters that may be contaminated with extraneous plastic materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The potato, egg, cheese, and bacon fritters were produced on Nov. 11, 2015. The following
Continue Reading Fritters recalled over ‘extraneous plastic materials’
