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
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:
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:
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:
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.
Product Disposition:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to NCGA for sharing this compiled information.