Recall Roundup: August 24, 2009

Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals and allergy alerts. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

Australia & New Zealand

• Food Safety Recall (Australia): Fishboy Pty Ltd (Marrickville, NSW) recalls certain production codes of Salty Chicken, Fuligi Chicken, Sliced Ham, and Boneless Pork Hoof after testing indicates the presence of Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled ready-to-eat products were distributed only in New South Wales.
• Food Safety Recall (New Zealand): Goulds Fine Foods (Wellington) recalls The Valley Sausage Company Sausage Meat (500g tubes; batch #3395) after discovering the presence of small metal flakes in some tubes of sausage meat. The recalled product is sold in Foodstuffs supermarkets (Pak’n Save and New World) in the lower North Island and Wellington region.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket's recall web site.

• A&P
• Big Y® World Class Market®
  
• BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
  
• Bloom
  
• Brookshire's
  
• Costco Wholesale Corporation (US stores)
  
• Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.
  
• EDEKA (Germany)
• Food City
  
• Food Lion
  
• Giant Food LLC
• Hannaford Brothers Co.
  
• Harris Teeter
  
• Harvey's Supermarket
  
• H-E-B
• The Kroger Company*
  
• Price Chopper
  
• Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc.
  
• Sainsbury's
  
• ShopRite
  
• Stop & Shop
• Sweetbay Supermarkets
• Target
  
• Tops Friendly Markets
  
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  
• Wegmans
  
• Whole Foods Market
  
• Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
  

*The Kroger umbrella encompasses numerous supermarket, marketplace and convenience store chains, listed on the Kroger corporate home page.

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