SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Heads of iceberg lettuce are being removed from grocery store shelves in at least seven states after salmonella was found in an Arizona field adjacent to the grower's property.
None of the lettuce in the markets has tested positive for salmonella but the grower alerted retailers of the test results and sought a withdrawal of the product "out of an abundance of caution."
"There's no evidence of contamination on any product whatsoever," Jamie Strachan, CEO of Salinas, Calif.-based Growers Express, told The Associated Press on Friday. Still, The Kroger Co. and its affiliated grocery chain, Smith's Food and Drug, decided to pull the product from 200 stores in at least seven states, including Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada, Kroger spokesman Keith Dailey said.
Dailey called it a cautionary move prompted by a notice from the grower.
Strachan stressed that none of his company's product has tested positive for salmonella, and that crops growing in the adjacent field south of Phoenix were destroyed. He would not say who owned the tainted property.
Strachan also declined to say what other grocery store chains in the country might also have some of the lettuce the company has sought to remove from shelves. He said it could be up to 1,000 heads.
"Out of an abundance of caution, we withdrew our product out of market," Strachan said. "We're just being cautious." He said the company, which also supplies product to Green Giant, hadn't been ordered to issue any official recall, and has alerted regulatory authorities. "We're being very conservative, and we want to do the right thing, but we're not being asked to do that by any health authorities," Strachan said. No illnesses have been reported.
California Department of Public Health spokeswoman Anita Gore said late Friday that Growers Express told both the agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the company had contacted its customers and issued a voluntary "market withdrawal".
The FDA did not respond to requests for comment.
"They're pulling the lettuce to be on the safe side, but there's no official recall," Utah Department of Agriculture and Food spokesman Larry Lewis said.
BRIAN SKOLOFF-Associated Press- January 3, 2012
5 comments:
If in Qveens they don't pull the 'yerookis' because of 'verem'lach'
iz ah kal vochoimer az they don't pull it for salmonelle, ah zoivee es shteit in go'oin far de vos vaisen.
What we have above is a very confused personality.
He is a Queens Vaad drecktor haunted by boogeymen, real and imagined, of Queens Vaad critics exposing him. On the one hand, he acts like a Napoleonic megalomaniac and mitzad sheini er shpringt fun yeden kol aleh nidaf that his critics must not only be plotting to expose another Queens Vaad cover up but must also be posting every critique of every other hashgocho in the world (especially if it is on chazirei that is sold in Queens Vaad supermarkets).
Get some help!
how did yechiel babad get the hashgocho on shoprite lakewood when there are local hashgochos and rav sternbuch wrote that no one in lakewood should eat from him?
http://www.chickpeace83.com/kosher-certificat8203ion.html
A long time ago when Pupa Monsey was giving hashguche in Boro Park, at least one chassidishe rav hamachshir in Brooklyn was saying Rav Rosner was not really checking khoigen for bugs. Don't know if it improved since then.
Francois Payard is a famous 3rd generation French pastry chef.
http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/context_chooser.jsp?previous_page=%2Fmain%2FProductDetail.jsp&catID=0&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524446172679&bmForm=back_to_us&bmFormID=1254034235250&bmUID=1254034235250
Some of his products are kosher pareve under the Badatz of Paris, like this item that Saks 5th Ave mistakenly says is under OK because the symbols are a little similar. Payard did a lot of work to reformulate without dairy.
There has been some misleading information circulating about Payard's restaurants, bakeries and chocolate shops in Manhattan. They are NOT kosher. All of Payard's kosher items are outsourced to kosher facilities in either Brooklyn or France according to his recipes.
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