August 2006

FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. This listserv covers mainly Class I (life-threatening) recalls. A complete listing of recalls can be found in the FDA Enforcement Report at: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/Enforce.html
Expanded Recall: Future Food Ltd. Recalls Salad, Spreads, Dips, and Related Products
Contact:
Emily Alfano
1-800-318-7229
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Dallas, TX — August 15, 2006 — Future Food Ltd, Dallas, TX, is expanding its August 11, 2006 recall of Krab Dip Supreme and Supreme Krab Dip to include the following additional products that bear either the use-by date of 8/23/06 and the lot code 06186 or the use-by date of 8/23/06 and the marking A4, B4 or C4: Krab Log, Cajun Smoked Salmon Flavored Spread, Krab Artichoke Spinach Dip, Krab Dip, Cajun Krab Dip, Jalapeno Krab Dip, Cajun Crawfish Salad, and Smoked Salmon Flavored Spread. These products were sold under the brand names of Salads of the Sea, Hen House, Southern Home and Fisherman’s Market.Continue Reading Recall — Firm Press Release

ATLANTA — Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin announced today that Georgia Department of Agriculture food scientists have found Listeria monocytogenes in a store sample of imitation crab dip in south Georgia.
The seven-ounce sample of Salads of the Sea Supreme Krab Dip (imitation crab) was sold at Winn-Dixie supermarkets south of a line from Columbus to Augusta. Listeria monocytogenes, is a species of bacteria that can potentially cause illness. The contamination was found only in a 7-ounce package marked SELL BY August 23, 2006.
The dip is distributed by Future Food, LTD, Dallas, Texas.
ìWinn-Dixie is notifying its stores that bought the crab dip to pull it from their shelves. Department of Agriculture inspectors will be checking stores to make sure it is removed. Anyone who purchased this product may return it to the store for a refund,” said Commissioner Irvin.Continue Reading GA Agriculture Dept. Finds Contaminated Crab Dip

Albertsons and Chef Solutions Inc. have issued a recall for approximately 8,300 pounds of essensia brand baked potato salad.
A single test carried out by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Food Safety detected Listeria monocytogenes, bacteria that can cause flu-like symptoms among others.
The only product included in the voluntary…

Aug. 11, 2006, 8:10PM
By The Associated Press
© 2006 The Associated Press
The following recalls have been announced:
365 Everyday Value Soy Cream Chocolate and 365 Everyday Value Soy Cream Vanilla, all lot codes, distributed nationwide by Whole Foods Market of Austin, Texas, because they may contain undeclared milk proteins. People who have an…

Near-fatal bout leaves father blind, unable to work
by By Susan Reinhardt, SREINHARDT@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
August 11, 2006
BLACK MOUNTAIN – They’d been married only a month.
And here stood the bride, Dana Goode, peering over her dying husband and
facing the doctor’s words: that should her husband make it, he’d likely
remain in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.
On March 24, Kevin Goode married the woman of his dreams. On April 29, he
lay in the neuro-trauma unit at Mission Hospitals, delirious with a high
fever, an unknown illness, and doctors frantically ordering tests and
panels, working against time and a failing body to get a diagnosis and begin
treatment.Continue Reading Man battles listeria infection

Near-fatal bout leaves father blind, unable to work
by By Susan Reinhardt, SREINHARDT@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
published August 11, 2006 12:15 am
They’d been married only a month.
And here stood the bride, Dana Goode, peering over her dying husband and facing the doctor’s words: that should her husband make it, he’d likely remain in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.Continue Reading Man battles listeria infection – LISTERIA

Linda Bren
Sheknows.com
Pasteurization, since its adoption in the early 1900s, has been credited with dramatically reducing illness and death caused by contaminated milk. But today, some people are passing up pasteurized milk for what they claim is tastier and healthier “raw milk.”
Public health officials couldn’t disagree more.
Drinking raw (untreated) milk or eating raw milk products is “like playing Russian roulette with your health,” says John Sheehan, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Dairy and Egg Safety. “We see a number of cases of foodborne illness every year related to the consumption of raw milk.”
More than 300 people in the United States got sick from drinking raw milk or eating cheese made from raw milk in 2001, and nearly 200 became ill from these products in 2002, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Continue Reading Got milk? Make sure it’s pasteurized