Recall Roundup: January 14, 2011

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 Safety Recall: MS Fish Corp (Brooklyn, NY) recalls Ossie's Schmaltz Herring (12 oz plastic container; Code 2/0311) due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled item was distributed throughout New York State.
• Food Safety Recall: Circle City Marketing and Distributing, d.b.a. Candy Dynamics (Indianapolis, IN) recalls all lots and flavors of Toxic Waste® brand Nuclear Sludge® Chew Bars, 0.7 oz/20g (Product of Pakistan) after the California Department of Public Health detects elevated levels of lead in the cherry flavor of the product.
• FDA Food Safety Enforcement Action: At the request of FDA, the US Department of Justice has filed a complaint for permanent injunction against Mystical One LLC (Jamaica, NY) and its owners to prevent the company from processing and distributing juice and other products. Violations cited by FDA include the following brands and products: Fresh Carrot Juice, Magnum Food Drink, Pineapple Ginger Drink, Sorrel & Ginger, Sea Moss, and Peanut Punch.
• Alcohol Wipes/Swabs Recall Update: Triad Group, Inc. advises that the following brands are affected by its recent recall in the USA and Canada of alcohol wipes and swabs: Best Choice, Care One, CVS, Discount Drug Mart, Equaline, Equate, Exchange Select, Exact, Good Neighbor, Good Sense, Healthcare, Healthy Generations, Kroger, Leader, Life Brand, Longs, Major, Meijer, Medicine Shoppe, Personelle, Publix, Premier Value, Quality Choice, Rite Aid, Reli-On, Remedy RX, Rexall, Safeway, Shoppers Drug, Sunmark, Up&Up, Top Care, Triad, Triad Sterile, Uniprix, Valu Plus, Western Family, and Walgreens.

Canada

• Alcohol Wipes/Swabs Recall Update: Triad Group, Inc. advises that the following brands are affected by its recent recall in the USA and Canada of alcohol wipes and swabs: Best Choice, Care One, CVS, Discount Drug Mart, Equaline, Equate, Exchange Select, Exact, Good Neighbor, Good Sense, Healthcare, Healthy Generations, Kroger, Leader, Life Brand, Longs, Major, Meijer, Medicine Shoppe, Personelle, Publix, Premier Value, Quality Choice, Rite Aid, Reli-On, Remedy RX, Rexall, Safeway, Shoppers Drug, Sunmark, Up&Up, Top Care, Triad, Triad Sterile, Uniprix, Valu Plus, Western Family, and Walgreens.
• Food Safety Recall: Entreprises G.A. Leblanc inc, d.b.a. Metro (Chénéville, QC) recalls a number of preserved foods packed in Mason-type glass jars (Packed on date up to and including 31 décembre 2010), because the label on the products does not contain the instruction "Garder réfrigéré" (Keep refrigerated).

Europe

• Food Recall (Denmark): Harboes Bryggeri A/S recalls Harboes S brand Regular Super Peak soft drinks (2 liters; Expiry 19:07:11), because the product is viscous due to a manufacturing defect.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.0044): Mercury in and carbon monoxide treatment of vacuum packed swordfish chunks from Vietnam; distributed to Italy.
• Food Safety Notification (EU #2011.0045): Listeria monocytogenes in frozen smoked salmon from Poland; distributed to Italy.
• Dietary Supplement Safety Notification (EU #2011.0046): Unauthorised substance yohimbine in food supplement from the United States, via Hungary; distributed to the Czech Republic.
• Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2011.0047): Migration of cadmium and of lead from rim of champagne glasses from Portugal; distributed to the Czech Republic.
• Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2011.0048): Migration of primary aromatic amines from plastic turners from China, via the United Arab Emirates; distributed to Cyprus.
• Consumer Product Safety Notification (EU #2011.0049): Migration of primary aromatic amines from kitchen utensils from China, via Canada; distributed to Cyprus.
• Allergy Alert Notification (EU #2011.0050): Traces of milk ingredient in dairy-free chocolate ingredient from Belgium; distributed to Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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
• H-E-B
• The Kroger Company*
  
• Lucky Supermarkets
• Price Chopper
  
• Publix
• 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.