3 Food Recalls You Need To Know About This Week

This week’s roundup is especially important for parents of young children. Here’s why ice cream bars, tuna salad products, and canned pears are in the news right now.

Ice Cream Bars Recalled Nationwide for Listeria 

There’s nothing more fun than chasing down the ice cream truck for a frozen treat. You may want to stick to other store-bought or homemade ice cream this week, though.

Rich’s Ice Cream Co., based in West Palm Beach, Florida, recalled more than 110,000 cases of ice cream bars that may be contaminated with listeria bacteria. The distributors of Rich’s ice cream bars sold the following frozen treats to schools and ice cream truck vendors:

• Chocolate Crunch Cake Bar
• Cool Watermelon Bar
• Cotton Candy Twirl Bar
• Crumbled Cookie Bar
• Fudge Frenzy Bar
• Orange Cream Bar
• Rich Bar
• Savagely Sour BlueRaspberry Bar
• Savagely Sour Cherry Bar
• Strawberry Shortcake Bar

This recall affects ice cream sold in the following 23 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

If you think you or your child has eaten one of the contaminated ice cream treats, monitor for symptoms.

Tuna Salad Recalled in 7 States for Listeria

Reser’s Fine Foods, a company that supplies tuna salad to grocery store delis, discovered that some of the breadcrumbs used in its tuna salad may be contaminated with listeria. This led to two separate tuna salad recalls on July 17, one from Albertsons and another from Jewel Osco.

The Albertsons recall covers Albertsons, Randalls, and Tom Thumb stores in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Jewel Osco’s recall covers its stores in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa.

Both recalls include ready-to-eat tuna salad options in the deli, like tuna salad sandwiches, tuna salad on lettuce, tuna salad with crackers, and tuna salad on croissants. The sell-by dates on the affected items appear to be no later than July 19, so the products should no longer be in stores. However, consumers may still have this tuna salad in their refrigerators at home.

If you bought any of the now-recalled products and still have them at home, throw them away immediately. Albertons and its stores will offer refunds for the contaminated items, and we expect Jewel Osco to do the same.

Canned Pears Recalled for Unsafe Levels of Lead and Cadmium

On July 23, W.W. Industrial Group, Inc. announced a recall of its 15-ounce cans of Parashore Pear Slices in juice due to potentially elevated levels of lead and cadmium, heavy metals that can lead to toxicity if consumed at unsafe levels.

Lead and cadmium are naturally found in the environment, meaning you’re likely exposed to trace amounts of these metals every day by eating food, drinking water, and inhaling dust.

However, consuming unsafe amounts of these heavy metals can lead to various adverse health effects, including abdominal pain, lethargy, mood changes, delirium, and even seizures. Chronic exposure to these metals can also lead to reproductive issues, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). 

Product Name: PARASHORE Pear Slices in Juice, 15-ounce can
UPC: 704817164237
Lot: 3700/01172 6122J
Best By: February 19, 2027

The Maryland Department of Health identified the heavy metals during routine sampling. The affected products were sold primarily at Grocery Outlet stores in California and in several other locations across the country. 

If you have the item in your pantry, it’s not safe to eat—toss the pears ASAP. If you have any questions about the recall, contact the company at 516-676-9188, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST.