Recall Roundup: August 9, 2010

Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. 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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United States

• Food Recall: Cora recalls Cora Flat Anchovies (19.75 oz) due to mislabelling. The recalled product was sold in Price Chopper supermarket stores and may also be available through other grocery retailers.

Europe

• Food Safety Recall (Belgium and Luxembourg): Kraft Foods recalls Betterfood dès 6 mois biscuits, due to a choking hazard. Experts have determined that babies between the ages of 6 and 9 months are at risk of choking if fed the dry biscuits. Kraft will be revising its labeling to advise that the biscuits be broken up and soaked in milk or juice before being fed to babies between 6 and 9 months of age.
• Food Safety Recall (Netherlands): Kraft Foods recalls Liga Tweede Stap biscuits, due to a choking hazard (see above for details).
• Food Safety Recall (Ireland): Jacob Fruitfield Food Group recalls Liga Original biscuits, manufactured by Kraft Foods and imported from Belgium, due to a choking hazard in babies under 9 months of age.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1079): Insect infestation in dried figs from Greece; distributed in Greece.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1080): Unauthorised benzoic acid in soft wheat pasta from China; distributed in Italy and Romania.
• Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2010.1081): Migration of formaldehyde and of melamine from oval plastic spoon with hole from the Netherlands; distributed in Austria.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1082): Bacillus cereus enterotoxigenic in black ground pepper from Slovenia; distributed in Slovakia.
• Consumer Product Safety Notificatin (EU #2010.1083): Migration of formaldehyde from children's cups and bowls from China, via Switzerland and via the Slovak Republic; distributed in Austria.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1084): Histamine in tuna from Spain; distributed in France.
• Allergy Alert Notification (EU #2010.1086): Traces of milk ingredient in strawberry water ice cream from Germany; distributed in Cyprus and Greece.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1087): Tin in canned fruit cocktail in light syrup from Thailand, via Romania and via the Netherlands; distributed in Germany.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1088): Mercury in chilled swordfish from Malta; distributed in Malta and Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1089): Unauthorised use of annato/bixin/norbixin in lollipops from Argentina; distributed in Denmark.
• Food Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2010.1090): Cadmium and lead in food supplement from the Netherlands; distributed in Germany.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1091): Mercury in blue shark from Spain; distributed in Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2010.1092): Staphylococcal enterotoxin in chicken burger from Italy; distributed in Germany.

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.