Recall Roundup: November 28, 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.

United States

• Food Safety Recall: Advance Food Company (Enid, OK) recalls approximately 110,730 pounds of frozen beef steak fritter products that may contain pieces of plastic. The recalled products were distributed to restaurants nationwide. There was no distribution to retail stores.
• Food Safety Recall (Update): The Melon Up! brand Large Seedless Watermelons that were recalled by Timco Worldwide Inc. on November 22nd are a product of Mexico (see Canadian recall notice, below)

Canada

• Food Safety Recall: Freshpoint Vancouver Ltd. (Vancouver, BC) recalls Melon Up! brand Large Seedless Watermelons (Product of Mexico; PLU# 4032; UPC: 0 33383 40240 6) due to possible Salmonella contamination. The recalled melons were distributed only in British Columbia.
• Food Safety Recall (Update): Costco Canada advises its customers that Nutrisystem Peanut Butter Granola Bars purchased in its stores or through Costco.ca were not affected by the recent Nutrisystem recall notice.

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
  
• Raley's
• 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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