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Ghiringhelli Specialty Foods Inc.
Recall · Class I2013-11-03Terminated

Contains soy without saying so on the label, which matters if you are allergic to it.

Report of mislabeled Caesar Salads with a use by date of 11/3/13 due to undeclared allergens of soy, fish and wheat on the ingredient and allergen statement.

Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.

Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Ghiringhelli Specialty Foods Inc..

What the notice covered

Trader Giotto's CAESAR Salad with Caesar Dressing; Perishable, keep refrigerated. Packaged in Net Wt. 8.5 oz (241 g) plastic clamshell. Manufactured for Trader Joe's Manufactured by Ghiringhelli Specialty Foods, inc. Vallejo, CA 94950.

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class I means

The FDA’s most serious class: a reasonable probability that using the product will cause serious health consequences or death.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reference number
F-0221-2014
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2013-11-03
Terminated
2013-12-02
Status on the record
Terminated
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

We have not matched this notice to any product in our database — usually because it named no barcode we hold. Products may still have been affected.

How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.

https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:"F-0221-2014"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-0221-2014 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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