Food recall

Whole Foods Market recall: Whole Foods Market Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Smoked Salmon, Cold Smoked Sliced

Whole Foods Market, of Austin, TX, recalled Whole Foods Market Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Smoked Salmon, Cold Smoked Sliced. The FDA's reason: “The product has the potential to contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes.” The FDA classified it Class I: it could cause serious harm or death. The company began the recall voluntarily on January 25, 2013, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of March 6, 2013. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class I

It could cause serious harm or death

Why

Listeria

Status

Terminated

Closed September 19, 2013

The recall

Company
Whole Foods Market (Austin, TX)
Reason, in FDA's words
“The product has the potential to contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes.”
Where it was sold
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada , New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Utah.
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
64199

The product recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-1005-2013 Class I

    Whole Foods Market Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Smoked Salmon, Cold Smoked Sliced, Net Wt. 4 oz, Distributed by Whole Foods Market, Austin, TX 78703

    Codes: UPC code 0 99482 40880 0, Lot codes 7425A2298B and 7425A2297A. Sell by dates are applied at store level when product is thawed for sale and go 21 days out from date of thaw. Accordingly, the sell by dates should begin with 11/22/12 at the earliest and 2/15/13 at the latest.

    Quantity: 6924 retail units

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of March 6, 2013.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.