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About Recalls

Recalls listed here are UNFI products only. We suggest following the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recalls for information on recalls as they are listed. You can request to receive recall information by email, through RSS feeds and a variety of sharing tools. FSIS Current Recalls & Alerts
 

Voluntary Product Withdrawal: Organic Valley Milk, single serve aseptic strawberry and vanilla milks NEW

Organic Valley is seeking a Stop Sale on our Strawberry SS items with a 5/23 expiration date and a Stop Sale on Vanilla SS items with a 5/16 or 5/17 expiration date. This voluntary recall is due to a quality issue and is not associated with any health risk.

Item 13768
6/4/8 OZ OG2 O.V.LF STRAW PRISMA
093966-002638
5/16 or 5/17 expiration date

Item 10534
1/12/8 OZ OG2 O.V.LF STRAW ASEPTIC
093966-002621
5/16 or 5/17 expiration date

Item 13767 6/4/8 OZ OG2 O.V. LF VAN PRISMA
093966-002690
5/16 or 5/17 expiration date

Item 10535
1/12/8 OZ OG2 O.V. LF VAN ASEPTIC
093966-004335
5/16 or 5/17 expiration date

Product disposition:

  • UNFI is authorized to issue credit for the items and expiration dates listed above
  • Product may be destroyed at store level

FDA RECALL: Follow Your Heart Dressings – due to possible Salmonella contamination NEW

Earth Island is conducting a voluntary recall on its distribution of the following Follow Your Heart brand dressings as a precautionary measure due to the possible Salmonella contamination of one of our natural flavors by our supplier. Manufacturer letter in Earth Island folder at page bottom.

Item 12070
12 OZ OG2 FYH CRMY RNCH DRSG
UPC 049568-660127
Organic Creamy Ranch Dressing – 12oz
JUN 14 10, JUN 21 10

Item 11555
1 GAL OG2 FYH CRMY RANCH DRSG
UPC 049568-661285
Organic Creamy Ranch Dressing – 128oz
JUN 14 10

Organic Creamy Ranch Dressing – 32oz
JUN 14 10, JUN 21 10
(UNFI West does not carry)

Product Disposition:

  • UNFI Is Authorized to Accept Credits for item with the dates listed above
  • Customer Service is making store calls
  • Product needs to be pulled at store level and destroyed
  • Account needs to contact the UNFI credit department with quantities so that credit may be issued

FDA CLASS II RECALL (UNFI West Only): Landmark Raw Goat Cheddar Cheese – Contains Cows Milk NEW

Rumiano Cheese Co is voluntarily recalling Landmark brand Raw Goat Cheddar Cheese (Sell by 06-22-2010) due to undeclared ingredients, mislabeled, contains cows milk. It may not meet company quality standards, and/or may represent a small health or safety threat to people.

Item 10413
5 LB LAND RAW GOAT CHEDDAR
206690-000003
Sell by 06-22-2010 Only

Product Disposition:

  • UNFI Is Authorized to Accept Credits for item and lot code listed above
  • Customer Service is making store calls per attached list
  • Product needs to be pulled at store level and destroyed
  • Account needs to contact the UNFI credit department with quantities so that credit may be issued
     

FDA RECALL: Select Health Valley Organic Granola Bars due to potential Salmonella contamination

Health Valley is voluntarily recalling certain Health Valley Organic Wildberry, Dutch Apple and Peanut Crunch Chewy Granola Bars because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. No illnesses have been reported in connection with the recalled bars and no other types of Health Valley brand bars are being recalled.

  • Health Valley Organic Wildberry Chewy Granola Bars, 6.1 oz box
  • 52237
  • Unit UPC code # 0-35742 15481-0
  • Lot codes: All lots from 05JAN10 to 06JUL10
  • Health Valley Organic Dutch Apple Chewy Granola Bars, 6.1 oz box
  • 52238
  • Unit UPC code # 0-35742 15482-7
  • Lot codes: All lots from 03JAN10 to 17AUG10
  • Health Valley Organic Peanut Crunch Chewy Granola Bars, 6.1 oz box
  • 52239
  • Unit UPC code # 0-35742 15483-4
  • Lot codes: All lot codes from 07DEC09 to 06NOV10
  • Health Valley Organic Moist and Chewy Shipper, 54 6.1 oz box
  • 35671
  • Unit UPC codes are same as above
  • Lot codes: All lots from 07DEC09 to 06NOV10

Product Disposition:

  • UNFI is authorized to issue store credit for the item and lot code listed above
  • Customer Service is contacting the accounts that have purchased these items
  • Stores are advised to destroy product at store level

Current Issues and Comment Dates

Action Alert: Natural Products Association Urges Retailers and Suppliers to Oppose Amendment to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)

According to the National Products Association (NPA), if a new bill, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act, S. 3002 passes, it will amend the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) and have severe consequences for both suppliers and retailers (including removing supplements from the marketplace).

Links to NPA’s Action Alert and additional background information.

 

Wide Praise in Organic Community for New Pasture Rule

National Organic Coalition Gives Thumbs Up to USDA ‘Access to Pasture’ Rule

Excerpt from NOC Press Release, February 12, 2010.
The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced its “high praise” for the final rule on the access to pasture requirement for organic livestock published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). USDA’s February 12th action announcing the final rule comes nearly four years after a USDA National Organic Program (NOP) pasture symposium served as the catalyst that would eventually bring the rule to fruition following years of debate, discussion and research.

“This final rule provides the clear and specific language needed to enforce one of the central tenets of organically produced livestock—the requirement that organic livestock spend a considerable part of their lives in their natural pasture habitat and receive a significant portion of their food needs from fresh, green, growing pasture,” said Henry Perkins, organic dairy farmer, Albion, Maine. Perkins serves as president of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance (NODPA), a NOC member organization.

Find the entire NOC press release here.   Pasture Rule link.

 

GE Alfalfa Update and Action Alert: Tell Members of Congress to “USDA must not approve GE alfalfa” NEW

NOC Press Release (includes update on comments):

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2010 – The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and conclusions of its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Genetically Engineered (GE) Alfalfa. Groups, including NOC, Center for Food Safety (CFS), Organic Consumers Association, Food & Water Watch, CREDO Action and Food Democracy Now, mobilized their communities to help generate the unprecedented number of comments.

In addition, more than 300 public interest organizations, farmers, dairies, retailers and organic food producers from the U.S. and Canada delivered a strongly worded letter to USDA, calling upon it to deny approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered, Roundup Ready alfalfa (GE alfalfa). The letter cites the inevitable contamination of organic and non-GE alfalfa hay and seeds and threats to the viability of organic dairies, livestock, and meat and dairy producers as reasons for urging the denial. NOC, Organic Valley, Whole Foods, National Cooperative Grocers Association, CFS and others agree that it would be irresponsible government policy to approve GE alfalfa in the absence of legal requirements holding companies accountable for GE contamination, as is currently the case.

Find the entire press release on NOC’s website.

  • Continued action alert from the Center for Food Safety urging the public to contact their Congressional Representatives to tell them: “USDA must not approve GE alfalfa.”

 

National Organic Coalition (NOC) and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) urge calls to senators to voice support for Growing Safe Food Act (S. 2758) for safe, local, and healthy food.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (S 510) now on its way to the Senate floor could erect a formidable barrier to those markets for many small and moderate sized farms. The Act would considerably ramp up FDA regulation on farms that even minimally process their crops and sell them to restaurants, food coops, groceries, schools or to wholesale markets.

On NSAC’s website, please find additional background info and action alert and calling instructions.

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Thanks to NCGA for sharing this compiled information.