Summary
- Company Announcement Date:
- October 02, 2020
- FDA Publish Date:
- October 05, 2020
- Product Type:
- Food & Beverages
- Reason for Announcement:
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Possible Salmonella contamination
- Company Name:
- Seneca Snack Company
- Brand Name:
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Seneca, Clancy’s
- Product Description:
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Seneca Cinnamon Apple Chips and Clancy’s Cinnamon Apple Chips
Company Announcement
Seneca Snack Company, a Washington Corporation, is announcing a voluntary recall of Seneca Cinnamon Apple Chips and Clancy’s Cinnamon Apple Chips due to possible Salmonella contamination.
Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting in the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections, endocarditis and arthritis.
This recall is only for specific cinnamon flavor lot codes, no other flavor apple chips are affected. This only affects Clancy’s product sold by ALDI and Seneca products sold nationwide through Amazon and Gemline, no other retailers are affected.
Seneca is not aware of any reports of consumer illness related to this product.
Seneca was notified by an ingredient supplier that it shipped one lot of ingredients containing cinnamon that has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. In response to that notification; Seneca is now retrieving Cinnamon Apple Chips from its distribution system.
Read the full FDA report here.
As published by HealthyExaminer.com
