Birds Eye Foods recalls frozen-squash packages (Also Wet Wipe Recall)

[OhioChick]

Nov. 21, 2006, 1:34AM

The following recalls have been announced:

— Birds Eye Foods is recalling 3 million packages of frozen cooked winter squash because some of the products were tainted with ammonia. The recall applies to 12-ounce packages sold under the Birds Eye and 16 store brands names with an eight-digit product code that starts with "5CF," "5JE" or "6JE." Ammonia can cause headache, nausea, vomiting and throat irritation. Consumers can return the product to the place of purchase for a full refund.

Birds Eye said it received fewer than a dozen complaints and that testing confirmed ammonia was present in a package sold under a store brand name. The brand names are: Stop & Shop, Shaw, Price Chopper, Lafe, Shurfine, Hannaford, Flavorite, Market Basket, Wegmans, Giant, Tops, Safeway, IGA, Roundy's, Remarkable and Dominicks. The squash was produced by Chase Farms in Walkerville, Mich.

For more information, call 800-807-8817 or visit http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html

— Rockline Industries is recalling wet wipes sold under various names at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores from Aug. 21 to Friday because they could contain a bacteria known as Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia). People with weakened immune systems or chronic lung diseases, particularly cystic fibrosis (CF), may be more susceptible to infections with B. cepacia, which also is a known cause of infections in hospitalized patients, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Products that are affected will likely have a bad odor described as sour milk, Rockline said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4350625.html

[terip64]

1. Happy Thanksgiving

[Roland99]

2. Keep up-to-date on all recalls here >>>

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html

[knitter4democracy]

4. Thank you for that--I didn't know my dd's toy was recalled.

Her Polly Pocket set has been recalled, and I have to find all the millions of pieces and mail them back in. Oh, and I found out that the Polly Pocket Totally Zen set was recalled as well. How does Polly Pocket do Zen?

[Roland99]

5. Yeah, something about magnets coming off of the pieces

Glad you're now aware of that!

[WePurrsevere]

3. Lovely, I'm so glad I didn't get around to picking up a couple

of packages at Price Chopper for Thanksgiving dinner now.

[Javaman]

6. Squash and wet wipes...there is a joke in there somewhere. nt