Schnuck recalls ready to eat butter garlic marinated grilled chicken

The O’Fallon, MO-based Schnuck Markets Inc. Saturday recalled approximately 62 pounds of ready-to-eat grilled chicken products due to undercooking, resulting in the potential survival of bacterial pathogens in the products, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

The Butter Garlic Marinated Grilled Chicken Breast items were produced and packaged on November 8, 2016. The recall is for:

• Ready-to-eat grilled chicken containing the label of “Butter Garlic Marinated Grilled Chicken Breast” with a sell date of November 13, 2016.

The recalled chicken bear establishment number “EST. 13562” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to 26 Schnuck retail locations in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The affected product was sold from the Deli or Chef’s Express service case and would contain a purchase date of November 9 or 10 on the label.

The problem was discovered on November 10, 2016 by an internal investigation conducted by the firm after it received a consumer complaint regarding the purchase of undercooked chicken breast.  There have been no confirmed reports of adverse health effects due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about a health effect should contact a healthcare provider.

Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.

FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website

The 97-store grocery chain has outlets in five midwestern states.

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Chocolate Shoppe expands listeria-related ice cream recall

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company Inc. of Madison, WI, has expanded its Oct. 11 recall to include additional lots of several flavors and sizes of ice cream because they contain cookie dough that has been recalled because of Listeria monocytogenes.

Various ice cream shops, online outlets and grocery stores in 16 states received the lots that have been added to the recall, according to a notice on the Food and Drug Administration’s website.

Consumers can identify the products added to the recall by the following label information.

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Co. brand in 3-gallon cartons:

• Cookie Dough flavor with date codes 10/15/17, 10/21/17, 11/1/17, 11/8/17;
• Heaps of Love flavor with date codes 10/20/17, 10/28/17, 11/8/17;
• Peanut Butter Cookie Dough flavor with date codes 10/9/17, 10/18/17, 11/1/17; and
• Sticks & Stones flavor with date code 10/26/17.

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Co. brand pints:

• Cookie Dough flavor with date code 10/21/17.

The Baked Bear brand 3-gallon cartons:

• Cookie Dough flavor with date codes 10/13/17, 10/15/17, 10/21/17.

Related ice cream recalls
Blue Bunny, Blue Bell Creameries and Publix have also recalled ice cream products because of the Aspen Hills cookie dough recall.

Blue Bell discovered Listeria monocytogenes during product testing at one of its production plants in September, resulting in the recall of two flavors across several states.

After notification from Blue Bell, Aspen Hills of Garner, IA, recalled some cookie dough and launched an in-house investigation. Although the cookie dough producer did not find Listeria in its products or plant, according to a statement issued in October, it did discover food safety “issues,” which spurred company officials to issue a recall.

The cookie dough recall notice was not made public, though, going only to the 27 food manufacturing companies that had received Aspen Hills dough produced from July 15 through Sept. 30. All ice cream produced by Aspen Hills during that period is being recalled.

No illnesses have been reported in connection to the recalled ice cream, but symptoms of Listeria infection can take up to 70 days to develop. Anyone who has eaten any of the recalled ice cream and develops symptoms of listeriosis should seek medical attention and tell their doctors about the possible exposure to Listeria.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria monocytogenes infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

The specific brands and flavors of ice cream under recall because of the cookie dough, as previously reported by Food Safety News, are:

Blue Bell recall — A company spokesperson declined to provide the recall notice Blue Bell received from Aspen Hills, but said “we have suspended all ingredient orders from Aspen Hills indefinitely.” For more information, consumers with questions may call 979-836-7977.

Two Blue Bell flavors in half gallon and pint containers sold to retailers are under recall: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Cookie Two Step. Three Blue Bell flavors in 3-gallon containers sold to food service customers are under recall: Blue Monster, Chocolate Chip Cookie, and Krazy Kookie Dough. All of the Blue Bell recalled ice cream was produced from Feb. 2 through Sept. 7.

Both the consumer/retail and food service products produced with the cookie dough pieces were distributed by Blue Bell to the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Blue Bunny recall — Only one seasonal flavor of Blue Bunny ice cream is implicated in the recall, Hoppin’ Holidoodle, which is made with snickerdoodle cookie dough from Aspen Hills. It was distributed in six states: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arizona and Texas.

The recalled, 46-ounce containers of Blue Bunny Hoppin’ Holidoodle can be identified by UPC and lot numbers as well as best-by dates. The codes to look for are:

• UPC number 070640014644, LOT 60001 MM 19115 6228, BEST IF USED BY 02/13/18
• UPC 070640014651, LOT 60001 MM 19115 6229, BEST IF USED BY 02/14/18

Anyone with questions about the Blue Bunny ice cream recall should telephone Wells Enterprises, Inc. consumer affairs at 1-800-331-0830.

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company Inc. recall —  The company recalled two brands of ice cream in a total of five flavors in various sizes from 25 states in October.

Unlike the other recalling companies, Chocolate Shoppe included the amount of its ice cream. It is recalling 4,183 3-gallon cartons and 5,296 pints. The company distributed its Baked Bear brand and Chocolate Shoppe brand products to ice cream shops around the country, via online outlets and to limited grocery stores.

Consumers may contact the company at 800-466-8043 or via email at info@chocolateshoppeicecream.com. Recalled ice cream flavors from the Chocolate Shoppe can be identified by the following label information.

Chocolate Shoppe branded 3-gallon cartons of:

• Cookie Dough 12/29/17, 12/19/17, 12/13/17, 12/6/17, 11/26/17 & 11/15/17
• Heaps of Love 12/29/17, 11/24/17 & 11/8/17
• Peanut Butter Cookie Dough 12/1/17 & 11/18/17
• Sticks & Stones 12/27/17, 12/2/17 & 11/10/17
• Yippee Skippee 12/1/17

Chocolate Shoppe branded pints cartons of:

• Cookie Dough 12/13/17, 12/9/17 & 11/26/17

Baked Bear branded 3-gallon cartons of:

• Cookie Dough 12/6/17, 11/26/17 & 11/15/17

Publix recall —  Only one flavor of Publix branded ice cream is implicated in the recall, Publix Premium Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream.

The recalled ice cream was sold at Publix stores in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee and North Carolina. It can be identified by the UPC number of 000-41415-03843 and a sell by date of May 27 2017, which is printed on the bottom of the half-gallon containers.

Publix customers with questions can call the company at 800-242-1227.

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Fourth company recalls ice cream made at Dr. Bob’s for listeria

A fifth ice cream brand — Agave Dream — is under recall because of potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes from the Dr. Bob’s of Upland LLC manufacturing plant.

To see photos of all five flavors of Agave Dream ice cream subject to this recall, click on the image.

Agave Dream of Palos Veredes Peninsula, CA, posted its recall with the Food and Drug Administration Thursday evening, pulling back five flavors of its ice cream and citing the same problems at Dr. Bob’s as three other companies who have recalled ice cream produced there.

“The recall is the result of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finding samples positive for Listeria monocytogenes in the contract manufacturer’s facility and in finished product of another company’s brand, leading the contract manufacturer to recall all ice cream products it produced for Agave Dream,” according to the Agave Dream recall notice.

FDA officials have said they cannot release additional information about the situation at Dr. Bob’s citing confidential corporate information. The “finished product of another company’s brand” had not been identified by FDA.

The Agave Dream ice cream subject to the recall went to retailers across the United States that received products from the following distributors: KeHE Romeoville and Dallas warehouses; DPI NW; Americold; IWI Franklin IN; Jakes Finer Foods Houston; Haddon House Richburg, SC, and Medford, NJ; Grocery Outlet California, UNFI in Auburn and Ridgefield, WA, and Dallas.

The recalled products Agave Dream ice cream is packed in pints with the “best buy” date located at the bottom of the pint. The following flavors with UPC codes and “Best By” dates as follows are being recalled:

• Vanilla, UPC 8 9934900201 7, best buy dates 7/4/17, 9/9/17,10/9/17, 12/12/17, 7/14/18;
• Chocolate, UPC 8 9934900202 4, best buy dates 7/4/17, 8/5/17, 9/9/17, 10/9/17, 12/12/17, 12/24/17;
• Cappuccino, UPC 8 9934900204 8, best buy dates 7/4/17, 9/9/17, 12/2/17;
• Chocolate Chip, UPC 8 9934900302 1, best buy dates 8/5/17, 12/12/17; and
• Lavender, UPC 8 9934900206 2, best buy date 12/2/17.

Consumers who purchased the recalled Agave Dream ice cream are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 866-993-4438 or via agavedream@sbcglobal.net. 

Los Angeles-based ISB Food Group LLC recalled two flavors each of L.A. Creamery brand ice cream and Nancy’s Fancy brand gelato Wednesday citing the same issues at the Dr. Bob’s facility.

Also recalling ice cream made at the Dr. Bob’s facility are McConnell’s brand out of Santa Barbara, CA, and AC Creamery Inc. of Anaheim, CA.

No illnesses had been reported with any of the recalled products at the time the recall notices were posted.

Anyone who has eaten any of the recalled products and developed symptoms of Listeria infection should seek medical attention and inform their doctor about the possible exposure to the pathogen. Symptoms can take up to 70 days to develop.

Listeria infections are sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

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Only 1 new Hepatitis A case in 2 weeks in Hawaii’s outbreak

With only one new diagnosis in the past two weeks, a Hepatitis A outbreak in Hawaii appears to be contained with less than 300 people confirmed as victims.

In its weekly update Wednesday, the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) reported no new confirmed cases from Nov. 3 through 9. It recorded one new case the previous week, bringing the total number of sick people to 292.

About a fourth of the outbreak victims have had symptoms so severe that they required hospitalization. At least one death, a 68-year-old woman, is attributed to the outbreak that was traced to frozen scallops imported from the Philippines and served raw by the Genki Sushi fast food chain. Another outbreak victim died, but was terminally ill and in hospice care so health officials are not attributing that death to Hepatitis A.

“Although the 50-day maximum incubation period from the date of the scallops embargo has passed, HDOH continues to be alert for people who have had onset of illness earlier but may present late to a clinician, as well as possible secondary cases,” according to the health department update.

“Secondary cases have been rare in this outbreak and have been limited to household members of cases or close contacts of cases.”

All but 18 of the victims have been residents of Oahu. Seven victims are visitors who have returned to the mainland or overseas. Eleven outbreak victims live on the islands of Hawaii, Kauai or Maui. Only Genki Sushi locations on Oahu and Kauai served the implicated scallops.

As of early November, the state’s health department had spent more than $336,000 on its outbreak investigation and response, officials tole KHON-TV Channel 2. Of that, $304,600 went for normal staff hours, and an estimated $19,750 paid for 300 hours of overtime, KHON-TV reported. The balance was spent on vaccines and shipping specimens for testing.

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More ice cream brands made by Dr. Bob’s recalled for Listeria

Two more top-shelf frozen treat brands produced at the Dr. Bob’s ice cream production plant are under recall because federal officials found Listeria monocytogenes at the plant and in an unnamed brand of ice cream.

Los Angeles-based ISB Food Group LLC recalled two flavors each of L.A. Creamery brand ice cream and Nancy’s Fancy brand gelato Wednesday according to recall notices posted on the Food and Drug Administration’s website.

The ISB recalls for the L.A. Creamery and Nancy’s Fancy products include almost identical language identifying Dr. Bob’s of Upland LLC as did two other ice cream recalls in the past week. Those recalls were for McConnell’s brand out of Santa Barbara, CA, and AC Creamery Inc. of Anaheim, CA.

“The recall is the result of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finding samples positive for Listeria monocytogenes in the facility of the contract manufacturer, Dr. Bob’s of Upland LLC, and in finished product of an unrelated company’s brand that was manufactured at the Dr. Bob’s facility, leading the contract manufacturer to recall all ice cream products produced this year at its facility,” all four recall notices state.

In Wednesday’s recalls, ISB Food Group provided additional information. The ISB recalls report the company only used Dr. Bob’s for the L.A. Creamery and Nancy’s Fancy products once this year, in March, “and will not produce in the Dr. Bob’s facility going forward.”

Dr. Bob’s officials have not responded to email requests for comment. The published phone numbers for the business have been disconnected.

FDA officials cited “confidential corporate information” restrictions and referred Food Safety News to Dr. Bob’s for questions about the contract manufacturer’s recall of all ice cream products produced at its facility, as described in the other company’s recall notices.

The specific products recalled by ISB Food Group on Wednesday are:

• L.A. Creamery Honeycomb ice cream in paper 14 oz. ice cream containers with expiration dates of March 18, 2017;
• L.A. Creamery Salted Caramel ice cream in paper 14 oz. ice cream containers with expiration dates of March 18, 2017;
• Nancy’s Fancy Butterscotch Budino Gelato in plastic pint-sized containers with expiration dates of March 18, 2017; and
• Nancy’s Fancy Peanut Butter with Crunchy Peanuts Gelato in plastic pint-sized containers with expiration dates of March 18, 2017.

The L.A. Creamery Honeycomb and L.A. Creamery Salted Caramel ice cream was distributed from March to October in California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Massachusetts.

The Nancy’s Fancy Butterscotch Budino Gelato and Nancy’s Fancy Peanut Butter with Crunchy Peanuts Gelato were distributed from March to October in California, Oregon and Texas.

As of Wednesday, no illnesses had been reported in connection to any of the recalled L.A. Creamery brand or Nancy’s Fancy brand products.

Consumers who have purchased the recalled Nancy’s Fancy or L.A. Creamery brand products are urged to contact ISB Food Group for a full refund or any questions at 818-405-0022, Ext. 103.

Anyone who has eaten any of the recalled ice cream products and developed symptoms of Listeria infection should seek medical attention and tell their doctor of the possible exposure to the pathogen. It can take up to 70 days for Listeria infection symptoms to develop.

The pathogen can cause serious and sometimes fatal illnesses in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

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Paleo Beef Jerky added to recall of Craft Beer Jerky

A Kansas City re-packing company is expanding its beef jerky recall more than six-fold, adding two varieties of E3 Meat Co. Paleo beef jerky to an earlier recall of Craft Beer Jerky.

None of the jerky was inspected, as required by federal law, according to the recall notice posted by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The jerky is may have been illegally stamped with a USDA “mark of inspection” and should not be consumed.

“The problem was discovered by FSIS inspection personnel after a consumer provided a package of the product,” according to the recall notice.

“Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase. Consumers with questions about the recall can contact Shannon Kimball, owner, Flavor Trade LLC at 816-531-2288.”

The expanded recall includes 628 pounds total of two flavors — sweet and spicy — E3 Meat Co. Paleo beef jerky. The original recall was for 113 pounds of Craft Beer Jerky, in wheat and porter flavors.

All of the recalled jerky from Flavor Trade LLC in Kansas City, MO, is packaged in 3-ounce plastic packets. The beef jerky items were produced on May 18, June 10, Aug. 30, Sept. 27, Sept. 28, Oct. 25 and Oct. 26, according to the recall notice.

Retailers in Kansas and Missouri received the recalled jerky. The jerky packages may or may not have a USDA mark of inspection with the establishment number “EST. 48135” and can be identified by the following label information:

• “Craft Beer Jerky: Created with Wheat,” which may or may not include package code 614261.
• “Craft Beer Jerky: Created with Porter,” which may or may not include package code 619290.
• “E3 Meat Co. Paleo Beef Jerky Sweet”
• “E3 Meat Co. Paleo Beef Jerky Spicy”

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Quebec company recalls cured meat products for Listeria risk