The dry-powder Salmonella thread that started with a ranch seasoning on Monday just spilled into café drinks — and that’s before we even get to two allergen recalls and a pet food expansion. This is Food Recall Watch — I’m Brian, Cassidy’s here — and if you’ve got moringa powder, matcha mix, or latte packets in your pantry, yeah, today is your episode. We’re naming the full California Dairies chain explicitly for the first time today, then we’re walking through two undeclared-allergen recalls that hit on the same day, and checking the Raw Energy pet food Listeria expansion. Four days, three finished-product categories, one upstream ingredient. Let’s get into it. Here's Food Safety News:
The new outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium has sickened 18 people across 14 states. Seven people have required hospitalization, but no deaths have been reported, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
FDA is reporting a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak tied to MOGO brand moringa leaf powder capsules — 18 people sick across 14 states, 7 hospitalized, no deaths. And this is separate from two prior moringa outbreaks FDA has already investigated, so that one ingredient category has now been hit three times. Moringa capsules, matcha powders, latte powders, crouton seasoning — I keep saying it all week, the problem is the format, not the brand. Every one of these is a dry pantry powder, and every one of them gets treated like it’s automatically safe because it’s shelf-stable. Eighteen illnesses across 14 states says otherwise. Quick correction: seven hospitalized, not eighteen — 18 is the illness count. And FDA is still calling this an active investigation, so we’re watching for whether it turns into a formal recall notice or stays at the outbreak-and-alert stage. That distinction matters for what retailers are actually required to pull. And that’s the same gap we flagged on the 26th — saying “investigation” does not mean MOGO capsules are off shelves right now. Somebody could have bought them yesterday. The Cooldown, with Hope Nguyen:
A nationwide recall is putting a spotlight on specialty café drinks after federal health officials warned that some powders may be contaminated with salmonella. While no illnesses had been reported when the recall was announced, the warning covers a broad range of beverage products shipped to businesses and consumers in multiple states.
SKS Copack, in FDA’s Saturday recall, covers matcha, milk tea, and latte powders distributed across 25 states to cafés, restaurants, and individual customers. The source is nonfat dry milk powder in the supply chain, and the specific lot codes are in the FDA notice. That makes three finished-product recalls tied to the same upstream failure now — Blackstone Parmesan Ranch on May 25th, Kroger croutons on May 27th, and today’s café drink powders. The California Dairies dry milk powder contamination isn’t staying in one retail channel or one cuisine anymore. Ranch seasoning, croutons, matcha lattes — that’s a huge consumer footprint from one ingredient. And here’s the part that gets me — if a café worker scoops this powder into your drink at the counter, there’s no package in your hand, no lot code you ever see. We flagged that blind spot on Tuesday with the Angel Specialty beverages story, and now SKS Copack gives us the exact product to name. Crouton seasoning, moringa leaf powder, and now matcha and latte powders — every single one is a dry shelf-stable powder people assume is low-risk. That assumption is the problem, and this week alone gives us enough concrete examples to say it plainly. AP News writes:
Bazzini, LLC, of Allentown, PA, a co-manufacturer utilized by SkinnyDipped®, is voluntarily recalling a limited number of cases of SkinnyDipped® Dark Chocolate Coconut Almond Bites, out of an abundance of caution, due to the possible presence of undeclared peanut allergen.
Bazzini LLC, out of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the co-manufacturer here — they make SkinnyDipped® Dark Chocolate Coconut Almond Bites, and certain lots are being pulled for undeclared peanut. Check the lot code and Best By date on the exterior package; distribution was nationwide, both retail and complimentary samples. The product is called “Almond Bites” — coconut, dark chocolate, almond, right there in the name. A peanut-allergic shopper reads that label and has no reason to flip the bag over and dig harder. That’s the trap: the name itself tells you, “no peanuts here.” Worth noting, this came through as a co-manufacturer recall — Bazzini is issuing it, not SkinnyDipped® directly, and the notice is explicit that no other SkinnyDipped® products are affected, just the specific lots named. And some of these went out as free samples — so there are people who got this product without ever buying it, without a receipt, and almost certainly without a way to tie it back to a lot code they’d know to check. This one's from Food Safety News:
De Dios’s Ice Pops II LLC is recalling its 3.7 oz. packages of “popsicles” because they may contain undeclared milk, yellow #5, red #40, pecans and pistachios. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to these ingredients run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions if they consume these products.
De Dios’s Ice Pops II LLC is recalling 3.7-ounce packages of D’Dioses Fruit Pops — the issue is undeclared milk, yellow number five, red forty, pecans, and pistachios. That’s five undeclared ingredients in one product, and it was distributed to retail grocery stores across multiple states. Fruit pops. You buy something called a fruit pop, you are not mentally running through a tree-nut checklist. Pecans and pistachios hiding in a frozen fruit pop is exactly the kind of label failure that lands somebody in the ER because they thought it was just sugar and juice. And this lands the same day as the Bazzini SkinnyDipped peanut recall — two undeclared-allergen notices in one rundown, different product categories, same core problem: the label doesn’t match what’s inside. The dyes matter too — yellow five and red forty being undeclared means this also hits parents managing dye sensitivities in kids. But the pecan and pistachio issue is the life-threatening one. Food Safety News doesn’t have the full state list in the excerpt, so if you bought anything under the D’Dioses Fruit Pops name, treat it as affected until FDA posts the full distribution geography. From Food Safety News:
Raaw Energy is voluntarily notifying the public of an expansion of a recall involving products produced between 7/17/25 and 12/23/25 due to possible Listeria contamination. Another batch date is 3/31/26 Beef and Turkey Medley. Some products produced during this timeframe were not tested, and bacterial presence was identified during the same period.
Update on the RAAW Energy pet-food thread — the recall has expanded again, and this time confirmed Listeria test results are driving it. The new production window runs from July 17 through December 23, 2025, plus a separate March 31, 2026 lot of Beef and Turkey Medley — and the expansion is happening because some products in that window were never tested in the first place. So the original scope was just wrong — they didn’t test everything, found Listeria where they did test, and now the window has grown by months. That March 2026 Beef and Turkey Medley lot means somebody could have bought this in April and their dog is eating it right now. Worth flagging for listeners: Food Safety News is running this under “Raw Energy” — earlier episodes used “RAAW Energy.” Based on the production dates and the expansion timeline we’ve been tracking, this is the same company and the same recall, not a second outbreak. And the “my dog seems fine” logic does not hold here — Listeria can move from a pet’s food bowl to a human without the animal showing a single symptom. The exposure window just got wider, not narrower. If Food Recall Watch helps you stay informed, take a moment to subscribe and leave a review wherever you’re listening. It’s a quick way to support the show and help other people find us.
You’ll find links to every recall and safety notice we covered today in the show notes, so take a look if one affects your kitchen, pantry, or grocery list.
That’s Food Recall Watch for this Thursday. This is a Lantern Podcast.