A California meals producer is recalling 1000’s of instances of salad dressing distributed to main retailers over potential contamination from “overseas objects.”
The corporate, Irvine-based Ventura Meals, recalled 3,556 instances of the dressing that might be contaminated by “black plastic planting materials” within the granulated onion used, in keeping with an alert issued by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration.
Ventura Meals voluntarily initiated the recall of the product, which was offered at Costco, Publix and a number of other different retailers throughout 27 states, in keeping with the FDA.
Not one of the 42 areas the place the product was offered have been in California.
Ventura Meals stated it issued the recall after considered one of its ingredient suppliers recalled a batch of onion granules that the corporate had used n a few of its dressings.
“Upon receiving discover of the provider’s recall, we acted with urgency to take away all probably impacted product from {the marketplace}. This contains urging our prospects, their distributors and retailers to evaluation their stock, segregate and cease the additional sale and distribution of any merchandise topic to the recall,” stated firm spokesperson Eniko Bolivar-Murphy in an emailed assertion. “The security of our merchandise is and can at all times be our high precedence.”
The FDA issued its preliminary recall alert in early November. Costco additionally alerted prospects at the moment, noting that prospects may return the merchandise to shops for a full refund. The affected merchandise had sell-by dates between Oct. 17 and Nov. 9.
The corporate recalled the next kinds of salad dressing:
- Creamy Poblano Avocado Ranch Dressing and Dip
- Ventura Caesar Dressing
- Pepper Mill Regal Caesar Dressing
- Pepper Mill Creamy Caesar Dressing
- Caesar Dressing served at Costco Service Deli
- Caesar Dressing served at Costco Meals Courtroom
- Hidden Valley, Buttermilk Ranch
