More Than 1,600 Seafood Products Have Been Recalled from a Popular Grocery Store in 5 States
If you’re vigilant about studying the details on grocery labels, that’s wise—but yet another food recall is reminding us that especially for someone with medical dietary restrictions, not all the facts are always present.
Lately that’s been true for name-brand foods as well as supermarket chain-specific products. Now, in a recall issued Thursday, October 31, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that 1,668 units of seafood salad are under recall for the presence of undeclared soy, one of the most common food allergens.
The items were sold between October 25 and October 29 in 12-ounce plastic containers and distributed to consumers at Hannaford grocery stores in five states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York. If this sounds like a familiar purchase, check your label: The product was produced by R. Walters LLC dba Elevation Foods, a Massachusetts-based company.
The items are labeled as Hannaford Seafood Salad, bear a UPC code of 041268251612, and include printed expiration dates of November 13 and November 14, 2024. Hannaford has been notified of the problem, and has removed the product from its stores.
The mislabeled products were reportedly created to reflect an upcoming seafood salad recipe, which will no longer include soy. “The recall was initiated after it was discovered that the printer of the labels for Hannaford Seafood Salad had provided Elevation Foods with labels that did not match the current product formulation,” the recall notice explains.
