Recall Roundup: October 1, 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

• Pet Food Recall: Nutro Products, Inc. recalls select Nutro Ultra™ and Nutro Natural Choice® puppy foods after detecting pieces of melted plastic on the production line. The recalled packages of puppy food were distributed to PetSmart stores in California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico. Recalled Nutro Ultra™ puppy food also was distributed to Petco stores in California, Nevada, Hawaii and Utah.
• Food Recall: Food City reports that Hunt's Snack Pack Fat Free Vanilla Pudding has been recalled. No details were provided.

Europe

• Allergy Alert: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd. recalls Sainsbury's Chicken and Creamy Basil Pasta. Due to a packaging error, the product may contain undeclared shellfish.

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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