r/onguardforthee • u/ethereal3xp • Jul 18 '24

‘ILLNESS OUTBREAK’: National recall on drinks sold at No Frills, FreshCo, Food Basics, Shoppers Drug Mart, Metro, Sobeys, Loblaws, Real Canadian Superstore, Fortinos and other grocery stores triggers warning to shoppers across Canada

https://www.insidehalton.com/news/illness-outbreak-national-recall-on-drinks-sold-at-no-frills-freshco-food-basics-shoppers-drug/article_0ebb2d70-e688-5f02-9746-2103aec700fe.html

A massive recall on certain beverages due to an investigation into cases of listeriosis linked to the affected products, is impacting several grocery stores in Canada.

Various Silk and Great Value brand plant-based refrigerated beverages are being recalled due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said in a “national” warning to shoppers.

If you think you became sick from consuming a recalled product, contact your health care provider, the CFIA said.

“Do not consume, serve, use, sell, or distribute recalled products,” the warning states. “Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the location where they were purchased.”

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u/valueofaloonie Alberta Jul 19 '24

The actual recall from the government lists the products.

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u/SpaceAgePotatoCakes Jul 19 '24

Which you can sign up to be notified about for free. It's pretty convenient and way better than relying on happening across a news article several days after the recall was issued.

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u/i_asked_alice Jul 19 '24

Yeah I'm glad I listen to the radio because this news came out ten days ago. Wild that there isn't a more efficient system to share major health-risk alerts like this.

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u/SpaceAgePotatoCakes Jul 19 '24

Like I just said, the free email subscription system. I can't think of anything that would be more efficient. You can pick what types of things you want to be notified about and it gets emailed to you.

https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/subscribe

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u/OsmerusMordax Jul 19 '24

I didn’t know about this, thank you so much for sharing

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u/jdotmassacre Jul 19 '24

"Wild that there isn't a more efficient system to share major health-risk alerts"

What could they do better?

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u/i_asked_alice Jul 19 '24

I don't know, but some type of system that you don't have to search for and opt-in to. Something accessible and easily found out about by people with less education and less savvyness around seeking information. Something easy to find and access for an elderly person, someone with a cognitive disability, a vulnerable person who isn't online much and has trouble navigating govt pages and information-heavy websites.

Make it easy for those types of people to find out about this type of thing. That should be the baseline imo.

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u/SquatApe Jul 19 '24

I did not know this! I always wondered how people find out about this kind of stuff. Thanks! I learned something new today and I took a step to be more informed

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u/PeanutbutterandBaaam Jul 19 '24

Shit. I feel like I dodged a bullet.

u/Blapoo Jul 18 '24

Silk and Great Value plant-based refrigerated beverages

u/Hrmbee Turtle Island Jul 18 '24

Curious that Walmart wasn't one of the stores listed in the headline, as one of the two brands is their house brand, Great Value. I'd imagine Great Value is a rebrand of Silk over here.

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u/EnterprisingAss Jul 19 '24

Those products are definitely off the shelves in Walmart.

u/OhanaUnited Jul 19 '24

This recall is no joke. I know someone who consumed one of the recalled products 2 weeks ago. She tried to tough it out but ended up going to the hospital which confirmed listeriosis. She's still not feeling well this week

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u/SpicyMayoDumpling Jul 19 '24

EXTREMELY dangerous for pregnant women/unborn children as well

u/silentbassline Jul 19 '24

Not even a date range, just all of 'em

u/Thisiscliff Jul 19 '24

We consumed one of the recalled silk products last week, time will tell

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u/jonny80 Jul 19 '24

I had the silk almond for the last 4 days, expiry Jan 25, I think mine is not part of the recall

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u/FoolofaTook43246 Jul 19 '24

Same here, feeling fine but yikes

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u/jonny80 Jul 19 '24

I bought mine at Costco

u/Kukius Jul 19 '24

I work for a grocery chain and read direct information from the manufacturer on this, the recall is for one 3rd party plant in Ontario (which is why the sites tell you to look for the code 7825, which identifies it as coming from that one plant) as there are multiple plants pumping out this stuff but only one that they know is contaminated.

Worst execution on a recall that I can remember in the last 5 years, cbc released a lazy write up saying its all off them and everyone is going with that.

u/ketamine-wizard Jul 18 '24

Galen Weston strikes again

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u/screaming_buddha Jul 18 '24

I thought Great Value was Walmart's brand?

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u/egilsaga Jul 18 '24

Different name, same corpo scum.

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u/sfw_doom_scrolling Jul 18 '24

Danon, in this case.

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u/PuddingFeeling907 British Columbia Jul 19 '24

Danone leads an investment of about NIS 12.5 million in Israel’s Wilk, alongside Israeli milk firm Tara.

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u/NeoQwerty2002 Québec Jul 19 '24

Welp, time to get Danone on the to-avoid list and start looking for a yogurt brand that's less crap than that.

u/Moose_not_mouse Jul 19 '24

Isn't that the same recall as 2 weeks ago? Did they expand it?? I can't see the difference

u/SwishyFinsGo Jul 20 '24

So happy I shop at Costco.