A moringa supplement recall just spread across four storefronts at once — Amazon, TikTok Shop, Walmart, and Target. This is Food Recall Watch. Today: the moringa expansion and the lot codes to check, a nationwide animal milk replacer recall over vitamin levels, and the DOJ quietly closing its criminal case against Abbott. Follow the show and the next briefing lands in your feed on its own. Here's NTD:
Total Nutrition Inc., based in Deer Park, New York, announced June 26 that it was voluntarily recalling TNVitamins 100% Organic Moringa 1,200 mg Capsules and 100% Organic Moringa Powder—according to a notice published by the Food and Drug Administration. Both products were sold nationally through Amazon, Walmart, Target, and TikTok Shop, as well as directly through the company's website.
There are two new lots from Total Nutrition out of Deer Park, New York. The 100% Organic Moringa 1,200 milligram Capsules — product AB9917, Lot 2800, expiring February 2028 — and the Organic Moringa Powder, AB9904, Lot 2782, expiring May 2028. Check the bottom of the bottle and near the barcode. This is a supplier-initiated notice on the raw moringa ingredient — possible Salmonella, no confirmed illnesses, and no reported cases tied to this expansion. Okay, but look where this stuff lives — Amazon, Walmart, Target, AND TikTok Shop. That last one’s what gets me. If you bought a supplement off a TikTok video, where’s your receipt? How do you even prove it for a refund? And this is the second time in a few months they’ve had to widen it. Each round, it’s another couple lots, another set of platforms. The product’s everywhere, and the notice keeps catching up after the fact. Mac Bell, writing in ABC27:
Revival Animal Health is recalling its Breeder’s Edge® Foster Care® Canine, Shelter’s Choice® Canine Milk Replacers due to variable levels of Vitamin D, which results in either low or elevated levels in the formula. Additionally, the company is expanding its current recall to include its Breeder’s Edge® Foster Care® GM (goat milk) products for the same reason.
Revival Animal Health is recalling Breeder’s Edge Foster Care Canine and Shelter’s Choice canine milk replacers — and it’s expanding the recall to the Foster Care GM goat-milk line. Per the FDA, the reason is variable Vitamin D: some lots came out too low, some too high. Too low AND too high in the same recall? That tells me the dosing wasn’t under control — it’s a manufacturing miss, not a one-bad-batch thing. And the population matters here. This is the formula you hand-feed orphaned puppies when the mother can’t nurse — breeders, shelters. A newborn can’t shrug off a vitamin swing the way an adult dog could. Right, so on the high end, the FDA’s listing vomiting, lethargy, weight loss — and on the low end, over weeks, you get bone deformities and swollen joints in puppies. Both directions hurt the animal that can’t tell you something’s wrong. My question — is there a lot-code lookup for pet owners, the way infant formula has one? Because “nationwide” does nothing for me if I can’t match the bag in my cabinet. From Reuters at Business Insurance:
(Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department closed a criminal probe into Abbott Laboratories over its handling of a baby formula plant linked to potentially deadly bacteria and infant deaths, opting instead for civil penalties, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The U.S. Department of Justice and Abbott Laboratories did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside business hours.
The Justice Department has closed its criminal probe into Abbott over the Michigan formula plant, per the Wall Street Journal Sunday. The move now is civil penalties — clawing back money Abbott earned selling formula through federally funded nutrition programs. Here’s the confirmed part: this traces back to the 2022 recall and plant closure after investigators found traces of a potentially deadly bacteria. Abbott maintains no unopened, distributed formula tested positive. Some prosecutors thought they had a chargeable case — top decision makers closed it. So that’s the math. Infant deaths, Cronobacter, a national formula shortage that left parents driving state to state for a can — and the federal answer is a refund on the nutrition-program money? And here’s what bugs me — this was the supplier-level failure everyone pointed to for years. If the company at the center of dead babies walks on the criminal side, what’s the enforcement path when the supplier behind some salmonella sauce never even gets named? That distinction matters for listeners, Brian. Civil can mean fines and possible regulatory requirements. It doesn’t give you a criminal accountability finding. The plant’s open, the formula’s on shelves, and that record stays clean. If tracking public health risks matters to you, try Ebola Watch — a daily DRC and Uganda Ebola outbreak briefing with case counts, border tracing, WHO vaccine news, and traveler guidance. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts.
You’ll find links to every recall and source we mentioned today in the show notes, so if one affects your kitchen, pantry, or business, take a closer look there. That’s Food Recall Watch for today. This is a Lantern Podcast.