Canadian vertical farm recalls microgreens

Goodleaf Community Farms has recalled daikon radish microgreens due to possible Listeria monocytogenes.
Goodleaf Community Farms has recalled daikon radish microgreens due to possible Listeria monocytogenes.
(Courtesy Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Goodleaf Community Farms Ltd. is recalling Goodleaf brand daikon radish microgreens due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

A notice on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency website warns consumers that 75-gram packages of the microgreens with the code BB/MA JN 30 LOT#MR088 and a Universal Product Code of 6 28451 71410 1 should be discarded.

The CFIA notice is dated June 28. No illnesses have been reported in connection with the recall.

The notice does not say how many units of the product was shipped, or where.

A notice on Goodleaf’s website alerts Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island customers there is a “food safety issue with a very small batch of our Micro Daikon Radish from our Truro, NS, farm with an expiration date of June 30, 2018.”

Customers are asked to take a photo of the product and submit it to the company for a refund.

 

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