"potato salad recall" news and stories

It's the great potato blight of 2010: Supermarkets across ten Western states, including Hawaii and Alaska, are recalling two potato salad products, both containing red potatoes and dill. Safeway -- which also owns Vons, Carrs, and Pavilions -- volunteered to pull the salad from those stores' delis following another voluntary recall by the supplier, Reser's Fine Foods.

Teena Massingill, director of Safeway's corporate public affairs, spoke to Slashfood late yesterday. "Reser's recalled the product because it contained hydrolized vegetable protein (HVP) manufactured by Basic Food Flavors," Massingill explained. That ingredient had been identified by the FDA as containing salmonella.