A supplier for ready-to-eat and take-and-bake products at popular grocery stores is named in a third FDA report this month.
You love tomato sauce for the tang and saturation, maybe even the lycopene and vitamins A, C, and K…but for “metal fragments,” not so much.
A Utah supplier providing what their company calls “award-winning Fire Grilled Vegetables, Slow Roasted Tomatoes, Pickled Vegetables, Spreads and Sauces” [sic] is now being listed as the recalling firm on a pullback of 69,408 pounds of tomatoes that were shipped to manufacturers in California and North Carolina, where bulk packaging sizes suggest it’s possible they were included in food products that were packaged or distributed beyond those points.
Sevillo Foods was the same supplier associated with recent recalls on pizzas and focaccia around the country at Trader Joe’s, Kroeger, and possibly other grocers, such as Grocery Outlet. In a recall report emailed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday, March 28, the company itself reportedly recalled 2,892 bulk units containing 24 pounds each of Slow-Roasted Diced Tomatoes. “Product may contain foreign material (metal fragments),” the report cites.
The Healthy attempted to contact Sevillo Fine Foods and left a message with their Quality Control department, but were not able to make immediate contact for clarification on how possible metal fragments could have been present in the product.
Their site calls a separate but related product, Red Slow Roasted Tomato Wedges, “Sevillo’s best-selling product.” Other products listed on the site include ready-to-eat fire-roasted corn, fajita vegetables (mixed-color peppers and onions), and even grilled fruit.
The company’s site says their “fire grilled and fire roasted fruits and vegetables are placed on hold, tested for indicator pathogens by approved third-party ISO accredited and certified laboratories, then released for sale.”
Product codes for this, the third FDA Enforcement Report announcement published on tomatoes this month, are the following:
- Lot 1782501- expires 6/27/2026 Lot 2122501-expires 7/31/2026
- Lot 2022501- expires 7/21/2026 Lot 2182501- expires 8/6/2026 Lot 2232501- expires 8/11/2026 Lot 2732501- expires 9/30/2026 Lot 2742501- expires 10/1/2026
The March 28 FDA report states the agency has assigned a Class II designation to this recall, signifying “a situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
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