Classic Salads recalls baby spinach and spring mix products
Classic Salads recalls baby spinach and spring mix products
Salinas, CA-based Classic Salads voluntarily launched a recall Jully 27 of up to 30,000 packages of baby spinach and spring mix products due to possible salmonella contamination.
Third-party test results returned Monday, July 31, determined that one sample tested positive for Salmonella contamination. As of Aug. 3, there had been no reports of illnesses related to consumption of the produce, which was distributed to foodservice accounts in the United States and Canada. All baby spinach and spring mix in question was harvested from various locations in the Salinas Valley.
Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infection in young children, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems. Symptoms include fever, diarrhea and vomiting, and in rare cases, arterial infections, endocarditis and arthritis.
According to Classic Salads Sales Manager Lex Camany, the company was alerted through a third-party audit to a presumptive positive test result at 2 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on July 27. An hour later, the company began recall procedures for the entire day's harvest in question: the July 24 harvest of baby spinach and spring mix from various locations in the Salinas Valley.
As of Thursday morning, Aug. 3, Classic Salads did not know the cause of the contamination but had employed scientists and agriculturalists to investigate the matter, Mr. Camany said.
As for the companys decision to respond immediately and with a recall of the entire days harvest in question, Mr. Camany said the company "did not want to leave any stone unturned."
Recall systems work, Mr. Camany said. All of our foodservice customers responded well.
In one instance, a truck was about to deliver Classics baby spinach and spring mix products to an establishment and Mr. Camanys call intervened, he said.
The recall will cost the processor-shipper more than $500,000, Mr. Camany said.
Third-party test results returned Monday, July 31, determined that one sample tested positive for Salmonella contamination. As of Aug. 3, there had been no reports of illnesses related to consumption of the produce, which was distributed to foodservice accounts in the United States and Canada. All baby spinach and spring mix in question was harvested from various locations in the Salinas Valley.
Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infection in young children, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems. Symptoms include fever, diarrhea and vomiting, and in rare cases, arterial infections, endocarditis and arthritis.
According to Classic Salads Sales Manager Lex Camany, the company was alerted through a third-party audit to a presumptive positive test result at 2 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on July 27. An hour later, the company began recall procedures for the entire day's harvest in question: the July 24 harvest of baby spinach and spring mix from various locations in the Salinas Valley.
As of Thursday morning, Aug. 3, Classic Salads did not know the cause of the contamination but had employed scientists and agriculturalists to investigate the matter, Mr. Camany said.
As for the companys decision to respond immediately and with a recall of the entire days harvest in question, Mr. Camany said the company "did not want to leave any stone unturned."
Recall systems work, Mr. Camany said. All of our foodservice customers responded well.
In one instance, a truck was about to deliver Classics baby spinach and spring mix products to an establishment and Mr. Camanys call intervened, he said.
The recall will cost the processor-shipper more than $500,000, Mr. Camany said.
