23 food, dietary supplement recalls initiated

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Food producers carried out 23 food or dietary supplement product recalls over the past month, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Such companies decide to pull products from the marketplace when the food is inaccurately labeled, when it creates a potential health risk for consumers due to contamination or when the food has caused a sickness outbreak, the FDA reports.

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New Food Recalls Listed on FDA Website

Date	Brand Name	Product Description	Reason/Problem	Company Name
May 15	Karawan	Tahini	Salmonella	Broddzenatti Holding LLC
May 15	GHSW, LLC	Salads, wraps and salad bar trays	Unapproved Ingredient	GHSW LLC
May 14	Biltmore	Wild Smoked Sockeye Salmon	Listeria	Seven Seas International USA LLC
May 11	Promacta	Promacta 12.5 mg oral suspension	Potential Foreign Material	Novartis
May 10	Deshi	Golden Raisins	Potential or Undeclared Allergen	Deshi Distributors LLC
May 9	Mecox Bay Dairy	Mecox Sunrise Cheese	Listeria	Mecox Bay Dairy LLC
May 6	THE BEAST	THE BEAST capsules	Unapproved Drug	STIFF BOY LLC
May 6	Southern States	Various animal feed	Potential Metal or Chemical Contaminant	Cargill Inc.
May 3	Heritage	Losartan Potassium Tablets USP	Defect	Vivimed
May 3	Gia Russa	Bread crumbs	Tree Nuts	ICCO Cheese Company, Inc.
May 3	Titanium 4000	Titanium 4000 capsules	Unapproved Drug	D.B.P. Distribution
May 2	Life Rising, HoliCare	Dietary supplements	Lead	Life Rising Corporation
May 1	Par Pharmaceutical	Mycophenolate Mofetil for injection	Potential Foreign Material	Par Pharmaceutical, Inc.
April 30	Sagent Pharmaceuticals	Ketorolac Tromethamine Injection	Potential Lack of Sterility	Sagent Pharmaceuticals
April 29	AmEx Pharmacy	Bevacizumab 1.25mg/0.05mL 31G Injectable	Device & Drug Safety	AmEx Pharmacy
April 29	Norbrook Laboratories Limited	Subcutaneous injectable drug products	Potential Lack of Sterility	Norbrook Laboratories Limited
April 26	ThermaCare	Back Pain Therapy HeatWraps	Device & Drug Safety	Pfizer Inc.
April 26	GSMS Incorporated	Losartan Potassium 25 mg and 100 mg Tablets USP	Device & Drug Safety	Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc
April 24	Legacy	Losartan Potassium USP	Unapproved Ingredient	Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging
April 24	Jurox	Alfaxan unpreserved, an intravenous injectable anaesthetic for cats and dogs	Defect	Jurox Incorporated
April 21	Alvogen	Fentanyl Transdermal System	Device & Drug Safety	Alvogen
April 18	Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited	Losartan potassium tablets, USP; Losartan potassium and Hydrochlorothiazide tablets, USP	Potential Foreign Material	Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited
April 17	Weis Quality	Banana Puddin’ Ice Cream	Eggs	Weis Markets

Source: Food and Drug Administration