California-based Tri-Union Seafoods is recalling multiple brands of tuna sold nationwide citing the possibility of a potentially deadly bacterial contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The recall is applicable to canned tuna products sold under four brand names—Genova, Van Camp’s, H-E-B, and Trader Joe’s, the agency said in a Feb. 10 recall notice.
The company decided to withdraw certain lots of these products from the market after their supplier informed them that “the ‘easy open’ pull tab lid on limited products encountered a manufacturing defect.”
This flaw “may compromise the integrity of the product seal (especially over time), causing it to leak, or worse, be contaminated with clostridium botulinum, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning.”…