Canada: Recall Caesar Salad Products Due to Listeria

Safeway and Buy-Low Foods are recalling Caesar salad products from the marketplace due to possible Listeria contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.

The following products have been sold in Alberta and British Columbia (Buy-Low Foods and Nesters Market) and in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan (Safeway and St. Martin's Family Foods).

Recalled products

Brand Name	Common Name	Size	Code(s) on Product	UPC
Signature Cafe	Chicken Caesar Salad	140 g	Dates up to and including MR01	0 58200 13145 1
Signature Cafe	Chicken Caesar Salad	300 g	Dates up to and including MR01	0 58200 13119 2
Fresh 'n Delicious	Ceasar Salad	100 g	Dates up to and including FEB 28/14	Starts with 2 06430
Fresh 'n Delicious	Ceasar Salad	205 g	Dates up to and including FEB 28/14	Starts with 2 06419
Fresh 'n Delicious	Chicken Ceasar Salad	280 g	Dates up to and including FEB 28/14	Starts with 2 06422
Nester's Own	Ceasar Salad	100 g	Dates up to and including FEB 28/14	Starts with 2 06430
Nester's Own	Ceasar Salad	205 g	Dates up to and including FEB 28/14	Starts with 2 06419
Nester's Own	Chicken Ceasar Salad	280 g	Dates up to and including FEB 28/14	Starts with 2 06422

What you should do

Check to see if you have recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.

Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.

• Learn more about the health risks

More information

• Safeway: (403) 730-3511
• Buy-Low Foods: info@buy-low.com
• CFIA by filling out the online feedback form

Caesar Salad With Undeclared Wheat, Fish, and Soy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 3, 2013 - Ghiringhelli Specialty Foods is voluntarily recalling one specific lot of Trader Giotto’s Caesar Salad (SKU 05161) with a "Use By 11/03" date, because it may not list wheat, soy and fish (anchovy) in the ingredients. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to wheat, soy and/or anchovy run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.

The recall affects only Trader Giotto’s Caesar Salad bearing the "USE BY 11/03" date packaged in 8.5 oz. plastic clamshell. The Use By date is located immediately above the front label.

The 709 salads possibly affected were distributed to Trader Joe’s stores located in Northern California, Reno and Carson City, Nevada. No other lots, products or stores are affected.

The voluntary recall was initiated by Ghiringhelli Specialty Foods after Trader Joe’s discovered that an incorrect bottom label was attached on some packages within one lot.

Customers who have purchased the Caesar Salad may return it to Trader Joe’s for a full refund. Customers with questions may contact Ghiringhelli Specialty Foods at (707) 561-7670, 8 AM – 4:30 PM, PST, Monday-Friday.