Blount Fine Foods, Australian grocery story chain Coles, and Soline Trading Ltd. have each issued seafood product recalls.
Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based Blount Fine Foods has issued a recall for 2,987 cases of 16-ounce portions of Panera at Home Lobster Bisque due to potential contamination with an undeclared egg allergen. According to the company, the item was only sold through the refrigerated cases in the deli department of select grocery-retail stores in 20 U.S. states, and not at any Panera restaurants. The individual cups being recalled were produced with lot number 030821-11K and have a “use by” date of 17 May, 2021.
“No other Panera Bread, Panera at Home, or Blount products are affected by this voluntary recall. No illness complaints have been reported to date in connection with this recall,” the company said in its notice. “People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to egg run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions if they consume this product.”
In Australia, Coles Supermarkets and Coles Online in Victoria, Tasmania, and Western Australia, are recalling 150-gram packages of Coles Tasmanian Smoked Salmon, which were incorrectly labeled with a “use by” date of 7 April, 2023, instead of 7 May 2021.
“While the product is currently safe to eat, customers should not consume the product beyond the correct ‘use by’ date of 7 May, 2021,” the company said.
Coles-brand Tasmanian and cold-smoked salmon products in other sizes are safe to consume, Coles confirmed.
Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada-based Soline Trading Ltd. has likewise issued a recall of its Thai Elephant-brand black tiger shrimp. The company’s packages of 10.89 kilograms of headless 13/15, 16/20 and 21/25 size shrimp sold for use in the hotel/restaurant/institutional foodservice sector have each been recalled, according to a notice from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The products are potentially contaminated with sulphites, an allergen, the agency said.
Each of the companies has offered full refunds to those who purchased the recalled products.
Photo courtesy of Coles Supermarkets
