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A large batch of the flavor enhancer known as hydrolyzed vegetable protein or HVP, supplied by Basic Food Flavors, a North Las Vegas food ingredient company, was found to be laced with salmonella. Thus far, over one hundred products containing the ingredient have been recalled in both the U.S. and Canada. The company produces about 20 million pounds of the food additive annually.
"Michael Hansen, a senior scientist at Consumers Union, the advocacy group that publishes Consumer Reports magazine, told Bloomberg that this case may trigger the recall of as many as 10,000 products. To be sure, HVP is used in virtually everything that is packaged or canned — 10,000 products may be a conservative estimate.
"Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) is an MSG-like flavor enhancer that is mixed in with other spices, and added to thousands of processed foods, including chips, dip mixes, salad dressings, sauces, hotdogs, soups, frozen dinners, bouillons, gravy mixes, snacks, and ready-to-eat foods. And unless HVP is part of a flavor mix, HVP may not be listed as an ingredient on a food package.
Among some of the brand name items recalled are Quaker Crispy Minis rice cakes in tomato and basil, Family’s Best smokey bacon potato chips, Healthwise Cream of Mushroom Soup, two flavors of Pringles potato crips, kettle-style chips, and honey mustard/onion pretzels. According to Wal-Mart spokeswoman Anna Taylor, Wal-Mart’s Great Value Ranch Chip Dip, manufactured by T. Marzetti Co. of Columbus, Ohio, has been pulled from their shelves.
-Bouillon Products
Herbox
-Dressing and Dressing Mix Products
Follow Your Heart
Reser's
Trader Joe's
-Flavoring Base and Seasoning Products
Garden Harvest
Minor's
Publix
-Frozen Food Products
Casa Solana
E-Z Eats!
El Pasado
Giant Eagle
Jose Ole
Posada
Tornados
-Gravy Mix Products
McCormick
Publix
-Prepared Salad Products
Reser's
-Ready-to-Eat Meal Products
Follow Your Heart
-Sauce and Marinade Mix Products
Durkee
French's
Weber
-Snack and Snack Mix Products
CVS
Great Nut Supply
HK Anderson
Hawaiian
Herr's
National Pretzel Company
President's Choice
Pringles
Quaker
Rouses Louisiana's Best
Safeway
Spec's Wines & Fine Foods
Sunflower Markets
-Soup/Soup Mix and Dip/Dip Mix Products
Castella
Concord Foods
De la Casa
Dean's
Delicioso
Follow Your Heart
Fresh Food Concepts
Great Value
Healthwise
Homemade Gourmet
Johnny's Fine Foods
Kroger
McCormick
Mrs. Gerry's
Oak Lake Farms
Publix
Reser's
Rojo's
T. Marzetti
-Stuffing Products
McCormick
Originally posted by InertiaZero
There goes that can of peas I planned on having for supper...
Ive wondered about ingredients like these before, and what would happen if they became contaminated.
I have often said, that if you really wanted to poison America, hit the corn. Corn is in everything. But so is this stuff from the article.
Creepy
Originally posted by Phlynx
Recalls so far
President's Choice
Originally posted by nerbot
Certainly a good way of screwing with all those who have built up supplies of canned foods for when the shtf eh?
Next comes maps to the local food depots and personal scanning for your supper!
Ultraviolet radiation and heat accelerate their demise; they perish after being heated to 55 °C (131 °F) for one hour, or to 60 °C (140 °F) for half an hour.
To protect against Salmonella infection, it is recommended that food be heated for at least ten minutes at 75 °C (167 °F) so that the center of the food reaches this temperature.
Salmonella is not destroyed by freezing.
Originally posted by nerbot
reply to post by Phlynx
HOW does this get as far as being on the shelves?
Scaremongering? Attempted murder? Negligence?
sheesh!