Five products were affected, including cans with the H-E-B label in Texas, Genova 7 ounce cans sold at Costco’s in Florida and Georgia, and Van Camp’s label cans sold at Walmart and independent retailers in Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)] Tuna under the Trader’s Joe brand are subject to the recall in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.
Genova 5 ounce cans are affected if they were distributed by Harris Teeter, Publix, H-E-B, Kroger, Safeway, Walmart, and independent retailers in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas.
It comes just weeks after several chocolate and candy products were recalled in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia over undeclared ingredients including milk that could ’cause serious adverse health consequences or death’.
Tri-Union Seafoods announced the recall on Friday because the ‘“easy open” pull tab can lid on limited products encountered a manufacturing defect that may compromise the integrity of the product seal (especially over time), causing it to leak, or worse, be contaminated with clostridium botulinum,’ states a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory.
