5 Ongoing Recalls You Need To Know About This Week

What do cucumbers, chicken nuggets, and mortadella have in common? They’re all delicious additions to your refrigerator or freezer—most of the time. But this is your warning to check your items to make sure that they’re not part of the most recent round of recalls so far in December. These are the food recalls to know this week.

List of Ongoing Recalls for the First Week of December

Vegetable Medleys and Carrots

A voluntary recall has been initiated by 4Earth Farms connected to the previously reported issues with Grimmway Farms carrots. The carrots may be contaminated with Shiga Toxin-producing E. coli bacteria.

Because 4Earth Farms includes potentially affected carrots in its vegetable medleys, which were distributed by stores including Walmart, Albert’s Organics, Sprouts Farmers Market, and others, it has alerted customers to check their freezers for both whole carrots and vegetable medleys with best-by dates ranging from Sept. 7, 2024, to Nov. 2, 2024.

If you have purchased any of the below products, dispose of them and wash and sanitize the surfaces that they touched.

Shoppers with questions regarding the recall should contact 4Earth Farms at 855-918-1706, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT.

SunFed Produce Cucumbers

As of Nov. 26, 68 people had been infected and 18 have been hospitalized due to cases of salmonellosis contracted from eating cucumbers from SunFed Produce. On Nov. 27, the company announced a recall on every size of whole, fresh American cucumbers that it sold between Oct. 12, 2024, and Nov. 26, 2024. On Nov. 29, that FDA recall expanded to include cucumbers from Baloian Farms of Arizona Co., Inc.

On Dec. 5, the FDA added five more products to the recall, all related to the original outbreak investigation:

Russ Davis Recall: Multiple products (labels here) distributed to food service and retail customers in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Walmart Recall: Marketside Fresh Cut Cucumber Slices distributed to retail customers in Texas. 

JFE Recall (Snowfox and Snowfruit brands): Cucumber products distributed to Kroger retail stores in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, and Wyoming.

Supreme Produce Recall: Cucumber products distributed to Kroger and King Soopers retail stores in Colorado and Texas.

Yummi Sushi Recall: Cucumber products distributed to Kroger retail stores in Texas.

The cucumbers are labeled with the SunFed brand label, the “Pamela” brand label, or in a generic white box or black plastic crate with a sticker that provides the name of the grower, “Agrotato, S.A. de C.V.” Baloian's notice also lists clear PamPak branded bags of six cucumbers with the UPC 8 2540107010 6.

The individually sold cucumbers at retailers should have a UPC sticker that says “SunFed,” the place of origin listed as Mexico/Mexique, and the PLU #4062. 

After you throw away potentially affected products and sanitize surfaces they have touched, questions can be directed to SunFed’s recall hotline, which is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. MST at 888-542-5849.

Yummy Dino Buddies Holiday Nuggets

Costco shoppers who recently purchased chicken nuggets should check their freezers. On Dec. 4, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), issued a public health alert that Dino Buddies Holiday Nuggets did not receive reinspection when imported to the U.S. from Canada.

The frozen nuggets came in 5-pound boxes labeled “yummy Dino Buddies Holiday NUGGETS Breaded nugget-shaped white meat chicken patties” with a “Best if Used by Date” of 11/06/26 and Lot #241556. They have the Canadian establishment seal “348.”

Though no illnesses have been connected to the nuggets, out of an abundance of caution, the FSIS recommends consumers to either return them to the place of purchase for a refund or to throw them away.

Ecuadorian Mortadella

The FSIS issued a public health alert on Dec. 2 for frozen, ready-to-eat pork products labeled “Mortadela ESPECIAL BOLOGNIA.” The 1-pound vacuum-sealed packages come from Ecuador, which is not eligible to export meat and poultry products to the United States.

Because they came to the country illegally, the packages do not have a USDA mark of inspection. The mortadella was shipped to retail and distributor locations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

Though no illnesses connected to consuming the meat have been reported, the FSIS urges people not to eat the Ecuadorian mortadella. Instead, it recommends either throwing them away or returning them to their place of purchase for a full refund.

If you have questions about the public health alert, the FSIS says to contact Veronica Vasquez, firm President, Ecuatorianita Imports & Exports, LLC, at 732-309-0183 or ecuaimports1@hotmail.com.

Baker Farms Curly Mustard

A Georgia-based company, Baker Farms, is recalling its curly mustard greens. Late last month, the company was notified by the Texas Department of State Health Services that its product tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

Though no illnesses have yet been reported, consumers should make sure that they don’t have mustard greens packaged on Nov. 4 and distributed between Nov. 5 and Nov. 9 in their freezers. The “best by” date of the 16-ounce bags is Nov. 21. The product was packaged in clear plastic bags and sold to distribution centers located in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. 

Consumers should dispose of or return their mustard greens to the stores where they purchased them for a full refund. If you have questions, please contact Baker Farms at 844-761-2244, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.