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The food and beverage recalls in April 2025

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Wade Zhou
April 25, 2025
Updated on May 2, 2025
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The food and beverage recalls in April 2025

It probably seems like every day you're reading a new headline about a recalled food item, like onions on McDonald's hamburgers, baby carrots, and Boar's Head cold cuts. You're not imagining that influx.

According to a February 2025 report from the compliance company Traceone, the total number of food recalls issued by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture grew 15% between 2020 and 2024. Experts suggest this could be due to a variety of factors, including advancements in technology for identifying harmful pathogens and challenges with staffing and sanitation at manufacturing plants.

In the U.S., the FDA and the USDA have many regulations of which food manufacturers must comply. When a noncompliant product makes it to stores' shelves, restaurants, or Americans' homes, the manufacturer typically issues a recall. Then the FDA in most cases and USDA in cases involving meat, poultry, and egg products, work to alert the public about any items that may be in their pantries or refrigerators that could be unsafe to consume.

Food recalls are issued for a wide range of reasons, including foodborne pathogens, mislabeled allergens, or contamination with foreign material. The FDA maintains a real-time list of active food recalls—in April 2025 alone, the FDA issued recall notices for popular produce, including a Trader Joe's salad and Mauna Loa's beloved macadamia nuts.

Of course, following these alerts can be overwhelming at best and concerning at worst. The public's perception of the federal government's ability to keep America's food supply safe reached a 25-year low in 2024, according to Gallup data. Based on their latest poll last year, 28% of U.S. adults don't have much confidence in the government's ability to keep the food supply safe, and an additional 14% have no confidence at all. The majority—57%—say they have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of confidence, but that's down 11 percentage points from Gallup's 2019 survey five years prior.

To help keep you aware of recent recalls, Stacker compiled a list of all food and beverage recalls issued by the FDA each month. It's important to note that only particular batches of foods and beverages are typically recalled; you can check the FDA's site for details on which specific batches are affected, based on the Universal Product Code located on the packaging.

Read on to learn more about what you should be wary of this month, as of April 30, 2025.

Editor's note: Images in this article were provided by the FDA. If no image was provided or if the image quality was low, a stock image was used instead.

Salmon salad from Trader Joe's.
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FDA

Sesame miso salad with salmon

- Brand: Trader Joe's
- Recall reason: Potential or undeclared allergen- milk
- Recall date: April 29, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Package of macademia nuts.
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FDA

Dark chocolate-covered macadamia nuts

- Brand: Mauna Loa
- Recall reason: Undeclared cashews and almonds
- Recall date: April 26, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Package of snack mix.
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FDA

19th Hole snack mix

- Brand: New England Village Snacks
- Recall reason: Undeclared almonds
- Recall date: April 24, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Bag of enoki mushrooms.
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FDA

Enoki mushrooms

- Brand: Hofood99 Inc
- Recall reason: Possible contamination with listeria monocytogenes
- Recall date: April 18, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Box of Gerber teething sticks.
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FDA

Gerber Soothe N Chew Teething Sticks

- Brand: Gerber
- Recall reason: Potential choking hazard for babies and young children
- Recall date: April 18, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Package of soybean paste.
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FDA

Soybean paste

- Brand: May Flower International
- Recall reason: Undeclared wheat
- Recall date: April 17, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Bag of celery sticks.
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FDA

Celery sticks

- Brand: Marketside
- Recall reason: Possible contamination with listeria monocytogenes
- Recall date: April 10, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Label for honey roasted peanuts.
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FDA

Honey roasted peanuts

- Brand: Heinen's
- Recall reason: Undeclared cashew allergen
- Recall date: April 9, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Package of Italian-style seafood burgers.
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FDA

Italian-style seafood burgers

- Brand: Caraluzzi's
- Recall reason: Undeclared egg allergen
- Recall date: April 8, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Bottle of Texas Pete Habanero Buffalo Sauce.
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FDA

Habanero buffalo sauce

- Brand: Texas Pete
- Recall reason: Potential or undeclared allergen- sulfites
- Recall date: April 3, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Tony’s Chocolonely candy bar.
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FDA

Dark Chocolate Almond Sea Salt Bar and Everything Bar

- Brand: Tony's Chocolonely Inc.
- Recall reason: Potential presence of small stones
- Recall date: April 2, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

Latin sweet cheese bread dessert in a clay plate.
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Quesadilla de Queso bread

- Brand: Panaderia/Bakery
- Recall reason: May contain undeclared milk
- Recall date: April 2, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

A glass of pumpkin juice with pumpkin seeds surrounding it.
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Pumpkin juice

- Brand: Walker's Wine Juice LLC
- Recall reason: Potential foodborne illness (botulism)
- Recall date: April 1, 2025

Read more about this recall on the FDA website.

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