Recall Roundup: July 19, 2010

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.

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Canada

• Food Safety Recall: Boucherie Amiens (Montréal, QC) recalls a number of products, sold in vacuum-packages or hermetically sealed glass jars, because they were prepared under conditions that compromises the microbiological safety of the products. Please use the live link to navigate to the recall notice for details on the implicated products.

Europe

• Allergy Alert: Independent Irish Health Foods, Ltd. (Cork) withdraws various brands of yoghurt-coated raisins, due to the presence of undeclared egg. The coated raisins were supplied by Rascal Confectionary of Essex, UK. Please use the live link to navigate to the recall notice for details on the implicated products.
• Food Safety Recall (France): Fresh tuna sold at the Intermarché located in Guipavas between July 13th and July 16th was recalled by the distributor after consumption of the tuna was linked to 10 cases of food intoxication.
  
• Dietary Supplement Safety Warning (Denmark): The Food Safety Authority warns consumers against buying supplements containing extracts of the dangerous plant variety sølvlys - also called black Aristolochiaceae or Black Cohosh, which is suspected to cause liver damage.
• Food Safety Alert (Denmark): The Food Safety Authority warns consumers that crab claws, lobsters and miscellaneous sold from Kystvejen 57, 9850 Hirtshals were sold illegally from unhygienic premises and should be discarded. Consumption of these products may be hazardous to health.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0933): Plastic fragment in ice cream from Italy; distributed in Italy and Malta.
• Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2010.0976): Migration of nickel from steel stopper of oil and vinegar cruet from China; distributed in Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0977): Altered organoleptic characteristics of and presence of "category 3 material" in mechanically separated poultry meat from Romania; distributed in France.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0978): 3-monochlor-1,2-propanediol (3-MCPD) in soy sauce from Vietnam; distributed in France.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0979): Triazophos (pesticide) in long green beans from Thailand; distributed in Sweden.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0980): Mercury in frozen sliced blue shark (Prionace glauca) from Vietnam; distributed in Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0981): Glass fragment in low calorie strawberry jam with fructose from Germany; distributed in Austria, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg and Portugal.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0982): Defective packaging of whole milk portions from Ireland; distributed in Cyprus.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0983): BSE tests not conducted on beef from Germany; distributed in the Netherlands.
• Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2010.0984): Migration of cadmium and lead from a rim of glass mugs from Hong Kong; distributed in Poland.
• Pet Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0985): Salmonella Newport in dog chew from Switzerland, via Germany; distributed in Austria.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0986): Parasitic infestation with Anisakis (suspected) of fresh red gurnard (Aspitrigla cuculus) from France; distributed in Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0987): Insect infestation (cockroaches) in canned sarma from Turkey; distributed in Sweden.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.0988): Excessive sulphite in pear halves from China, via the Netherlands; distributed in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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
• Gros Cidac (Italy)
• 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
  
• Top Food & Drug
• Tops Friendly Markets
  
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  
• Wegmans
  
• Whole Foods Market
  
• WinCo Foods
• Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
  

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