Notable food recalls
POSTED: 09:00 AM PDT Sep 12, 2012
UPDATED: 07:09 AM PST Feb 22, 2013
Forever Cheese has issued a recall of one production lot of its Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand products due to possible contamination. Here are other notable food recalls that made headlines.
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Spinach -- Fall 2006 An outbreak of food-borne illnesses caused by E. coli bacteria was initially announced in September 2006 as the FDA called for bagged spinach to be removed from shelves. Another outbreak a few months later, initially blamed on onions at Taco Bell and Taco John’s restaurants, was traced to prepackaged iceberg lettuce.
