Food & Drink

Using eggs in your Christmas cooking? This egg recall may stand in your way

Planning on eating pre-packaged salads or egg-based products this Christmas feast? Hold your horses because it may have been recalled.

Fresh hard-boiled eggs sold peeled and in plastic pails from Almark Foods, a Gainesville, Georgia, company, have been recalled. This is due to possible contamination by listeria in their preparation facility.

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Two major food suppliers have already recalled some of their products.

The Fresh Market has recalled products from its deli and refrigerated dairy sections.

From the deli department:

Cobb Salad

Spinach Bacon Poppyseed Salad & Party-Size Salad

Grilled Salmon Bistro Power Plate

Eggs, Fruit and Nut Snack Pack

In select stores, eggs from the salad bar

From the refrigerated dairy case:

Eggland’s Best Cage Free Hard Cooked Peeled Eggs

Peckish Eggs and Everything Dip

Peckish Eggs and Fried Rice Dip

Peckish Eggs and Rancheros Dip

Vital Farms Pasture Raised Eggs, Hard Boiled

As of Tuesday, no illnesses had been reported and all the recalled items had been removed from stores. If you bought any of the products above, throw them out and bring your receipt to any Fresh Market store for a full refund.

Trader Joe’s has also recalled specific foods tied to Almark Foods.

The grocery store is recalling Trader Joe’s Egg White Salad with Chives and Trader Joe’s Old Fashioned Potato Salad.

Trader Joe’s Egg White Salad with Chives and Trader Joe’s Old Fashioned Potato Salad
Trader Joe’s Egg White Salad with Chives and Trader Joe’s Old Fashioned Potato Salad Trader Joe’s

As with The Fresh Market, no illnesses have been reported and the products have been taken off shelves. Throw it out if you have it and bring your receipt to a Trader Joe’s for a full refund.

This story was originally published December 24, 2019 at 5:56 PM.

Devoun Cetoute
Miami Herald
Miami Herald Cops and Breaking News Reporter Devoun Cetoute covers a plethora of Florida topics, from breaking news to crime patterns. He was on the breaking news team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022. He’s a graduate of the University of Florida, born and raised in Miami-Dade. Theme parks, movies and cars are on his mind in and out of the office.
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