Recent food recalls affect meat, onions, more

By Top Class Actions | November 4, 2024

Category: Food

Food products in a shopping cart, representing food recalls. — (Photo Credit: Stokkete/Shutterstock)

Food recalls overview:

Who: Multiple companies recalled food products recently over safety concerns.
Why: The recalls involve chicken, waffles, green onions, lemonade and meat products and were initiated over product mislabeling and salmonella and listeria contamination concerns.
Where: The food recalls affect consumers nationwide.

Rana, TreeHouse Foods, Church Brothers Farms, Coca-Cola and BrucePac recently initiated recalls involving food products.

The recalls affect chicken, frozen waffles, green onions, lemonade and meat products and were initiated over mislabeling concerns along with salmonella and listeria contamination concerns.

Rana-branded meal kits sold at Costco recalled over listeria concerns

A recall last month involving a pair of Rana-branded meal kits affected products sold at Costco warehouse locations.

Rana initiated the recall over concerns the meal kits may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes in connection with a recent BrucePac recall for more than 11 million pounds of meat and poultry products.

The recall involves Rana Chicken Truffle Carbonara meal kits and Tagliatelle Grilled White Chicken & Portobello Mushroom Sauce meal kits purchased in September and October 2024.

In a letter addressed to Costco members, Ran advised those affected by the recall to avoid consuming the recalled chicken products and return them to Costco to receive a full refund.

“We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and ask you to please pass this letter along to anyone to whom a Pasta Meal Kit may have been given,” Rana writes.

Multiple frozen waffle products recalled over listeria contamination concerns

TreeHouse Foods issued a recall for certain frozen waffle products last month over concerns they may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes.

The recall involves dozens of brands and flavors of frozen waffle products, including Food Lion, Giant Eagle, Hannaford, Harris Teeter and Simple Truth, among others.

TreeHouse distributed the recalled frozen waffles throughout the United States and Canada, according to the company, which says it discovered the potential contamination during routine testing at its manufacturing facility.

“Consumers should check their freezers for any of the products listed above and dispose of them or return the recalled product to the place of purchase for credit,” the frozen waffle recall says.

1K+ cases of green onions recalled over salmonella concerns

Church Brothers Farms issued an October recall for 1,271 cases of green onions over concerns they may be contaminated with salmonella.

The recall involves green onions sold under Church Brothers, Trader Joe’s and Imperial Fresh brand names and distributed to retail and foodservice customers in 11 U.S. states and Canada.

“This recall is the result of a single product sample collected by (the) Canadian Food Inspection Agency that indicated the presence of salmonella,” the green onions recall says.

The recall includes certain Church Brothers’ Green Onions Iceless 4 x 2-pound Reg Church Brothers Mexico, Trader Joe’s-brand Green Onion Iceless 24 x 6-ounce Reg Trader Joe’s Mexico and Imperial Fresh-brand Green Onion Iceless 4 x 2-pound Reg products.

Consumers or foodservice customers who have the recalled green onions should discard them.

Coca-Cola recalls mislabeled Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade

Coca-Cola issued a recall for more than 13,000 12-packs of Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade beverages last month because they contain the full-sugar version of the drink.

The recall involves Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade beverages shipped to stores in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

There have been any illnesses or injuries in connection with the recall.

BrucePac recalls 11M+ pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products

BrucePac issued an October recall for more than 11 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products over concerns it may have been contaminated with listeria monocytogenes.

The recall involves meat and poultry products produced from May 31, 2024, to Oct. 8, 2024, and shipped to distributors and establishments that then distributed them to restaurants, schools and other distributions nationwide.

BrucePac shipped the recalled ready-to-eat meat and poultry products to major grocery stores such as Walmart, Publix, Target, Aldi, Amazon, Trader Joe’s and others, according to the recall.

Have you been affected by any of the recent food recalls? Let us know in the comments.