We’re starting with a hepatitis A alert on raw shellfish, a Salmonella seasoning trace back to a California dairy supplier, and two separate pet food recalls — one physical hazard, one microbial — all on the same Monday. This is Food Recall Watch, and yeah, the week kicked off with plenty to check — the fridge, the pantry, and the pet food bin. We’ve got the Concha Negra hepatitis A safety alert, the Whole Foods Minestrone shrimp recall with the manufacturer now named, Blackstone Parmesan Ranch and its upstream ingredient story, plus both Allprovide and RAAW Energy — let’s go through them one by one. And I want to stay on Kettle Cuisine for a second, because Whole Foods is not the only place they make soup for, and that matters. Quality Assurance & Food Safety, with Jacqueline Mitchell:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and consumers not to eat La Serranita-brand concha negra (black shell) fresh frozen shell meat from Ecuador because it may be contaminated with hepatitis A virus.
FDA safety alert: La Serranita-brand concha negra — that’s black shell fresh frozen shellfish meat from Ecuador — was distributed to restaurants and retailers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. FDA says there’s a potential hepatitis A contamination, and the New York City Department of Health is actively investigating an illness outbreak tied to it, with case onset dates running from July 2025 through February of this year. This is a safety alert, not a recall notice, and that distinction matters. FDA is telling restaurants and retailers not to serve or sell it, telling consumers not to eat it, and telling anyone holding stock to dispose of it or contact their distributor for destruction. And it’s worth putting next to the a2 Platinum cereulide story from earlier this week: standard prep doesn’t neutralize every pathogen. Hepatitis A is another one where cooking assumptions get messy — and this came in through raw shellfish. July 2025 through February 2026 — those are illness onset dates, which means people were getting sick for at least seven months before this alert hit. And hepatitis A can take up to fifty days to show up, so if someone ate this in the last few weeks, symptoms may not show until late June or July. Raw shellfish, no kill step, and an exposure window that stretches almost two months — that’s a rougher ‘watch for symptoms’ ask than anything else we’ve covered this week. If you ate concha negra at a restaurant in any of those six states, your exposure clock is still running. Here's Source86:
The recall covers 24-ounce cups of Whole Foods Market Kitchen Minestrone Soup sold in stores and online. According to the FDA, Kettle Cuisine discovered that workers placed the wrong soup containing shrimp into mislabeled containers. Consumers with shellfish allergies should not consume the product and should return it for a full refund.
Closing the loop on the Whole Foods Minestrone: the manufacturer is Kettle Cuisine out of Lynn, Massachusetts, and the FDA announcement confirms it. The affected product is a 24-ounce cup of Whole Foods Market Kitchen Minestrone Soup, sold in stores across multiple states and online through Whole Foods and Amazon. This was a production mix-up — the wrong soup, which contained shrimp, got filled into mislabeled containers. No illnesses have been reported as of the FDA notice. Kettle Cuisine is a contract filler — they’re not just making soup for Whole Foods. So if their line put the wrong product in the wrong container once, I want to know which other store brands they’re filling, because those shoppers have no idea Kettle Cuisine is even in the chain. That’s the contract-fill problem in one sentence: the consumer-facing brand is Whole Foods Market Kitchen, while the actual manufacturer on the line is Kettle Cuisine. If you bought this 24-ounce cup, check the lot code and use-by date against the FDA notice, then return it for a full refund. No other Kettle Cuisine varieties or production dates are named in this recall. Here's Mesa County:
Blackstone Products is recalling certain Blackstone Parmesan Ranch seasoning products. This action follows California Dairies’ recall of dry milk powder, an ingredient used in the seasoning products. There are concerns that the dry milk powder is contaminated with Salmonella. The Blackstone Products seasoning was sold nationwide through Walmart stores and may have been distributed in Mesa County.
Blackstone Parmesan Ranch seasoning, 7.3 ounce, item number 4106 — lot codes 2025-43282, 2025-46172, and 2026-54751, with best-by dates from July 2027 through August 2027. The concern is Salmonella, no illnesses reported, and it was sold nationwide through Walmart. The contamination didn’t start at Blackstone — it came in through California Dairies dry milk powder, an upstream ingredient supplier. So the chain is California Dairies dry milk powder gets contaminated, it goes into Blackstone’s seasoning blend, and then it lands on a Walmart shelf nationwide — and the person standing in that aisle has no idea any of that happened upstream. The consumer-facing brand isn’t the one that triggered the recall; the ingredient supplier is. You expect a Walmart shopper to connect those dots on their own? That’s the anatomy of this one: a supplier-chain failure, not a single-manufacturer miss. And the best-by dates run into 2027, so this is not an ‘it’s probably already gone’ situation. Those jars could still be sitting in pantries right now with plenty of shelf life left. Seasoning is exactly the kind of thing you grab on autopilot — same jar, same Walmart trip, and you haven’t read the label since the first time you bought it. Lot codes 2025-43282 through 2026-54751 — check the bottom of the jar before you shake it on anything. Bassyonni, writing in El-Balad.com:
Allprovide Pet Foods LLC recalled 1,500 pounds of frozen pet food nationwide after it identified a possible plastic contamination risk in its AllProvide Holistic Pet Food Gently Cooked Chicken Recipe For Dogs. The product was sold in 16-ounce vacuum-sealed frozen packages, and consumers who bought it should not feed it to pets.
Allprovide Pet Foods LLC recalled 1,500 pounds of frozen pet food — specifically AllProvide Holistic Pet Food Gently Cooked Chicken Recipe For Dogs, in 16-ounce vacuum-sealed frozen packages, UPC 8-5-9-1-2-5-0-0-5-8-0-9, lot codes 048-01 and 048-02 through 048-14. The issue is a possible plastic foreign material contamination. No injuries have been reported as of this notice. Frozen means these packages could be sitting in somebody’s chest freezer right now, untouched for weeks — that’s actually the harder version of a fridge check, because people don’t cycle through frozen stock the same way. The UPC and lot code are the only way you catch it; the packaging is not going to look wrong. This one lands the same Monday as the RAAW Energy dog food Listeria expansion — one physical hazard, one microbial hazard, two separate pet food recalls in the same news cycle. On the Allprovide side, it’s straightforward: check the freezer, match the UPC and lot code, don’t serve it. Mac Bell, writing in Yahoo News:
The FDA notes that not all products being recalled have tested positive or negative for Listeria, but the company is taking this action out of an abundance of caution. For the consumer’s safety, Raaw Energy is recalling the following products, and asking you to treat them as potentially contaminated:
RAAW Energy is expanding its recall — more than 60 dog food products sold in Pennsylvania, all flagged for possible Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled items are the 4411 formula — Beef, Tripe, Duck Necks, and Chicken — in both 5-pound and 2-pound tubes, with date codes from September 9th through October 15th of 2025. FDA says not all units tested positive, but the company is treating the full run as potentially contaminated. And this is the same Monday as Allprovide’s frozen chicken recipe recall — plastic contamination in 16-ounce vacuum-sealed packages. So you’ve got a physical hazard and a microbial hazard in the same product category on the same day. Different failure modes, same aisle of your freezer. Pennsylvania is named, but ‘sold in Pennsylvania’ on a voluntary recall with 60-plus SKUs — are we saying it didn’t ship anywhere else, or just that Pennsylvania is where the trail was traced? Because those are very different answers for somebody in Ohio who bought the 5-pound tubes. The FDA notice says voluntary recall, abundance of caution — but the action item stays the same either way: if you have the 4411 formula in either tube size with any of those fall 2025 date codes, treat it as contaminated. Don’t feed it. Contact RAAW Energy. If you spot a recall we should be tracking, or if you have feedback or a correction, send us a note: foodrecallwatch at lantern podcasts dot com. We appreciate the extra eyes.
We’ve put links to every recall and safety notice we mentioned today in the show notes, so you can check the details for any item that may affect your kitchen or shopping list.
Thanks for listening. That’s Food Recall Watch for today. This is a Lantern Podcast.