Chicken meal, safety boots and more
A number of consumer alerts and recalls have been issued for food and consumer products by Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
Recent recalls include safety boots, snowblowers and hitch receiver locks sold at Canadian Tire, and a chicken meal sold at Loblaws, No Frills, Shoppers Drug Mart and more.
Health Canada also warned against the use of banned candles sold through Amazon, Etsy and Walmart.
Some Dunlop Purofort FoodPro Safety Boots sold in Canada have been recalled due to incorrect labelling.
Health Canada warns the inaccurate product certification information, or information about compliance with any standard, could result in consumer misuse of the product in a hazardous environment, resulting in a risk of serious injury.
You might want to check your snowblower before you put it away for the season.
Health Canada issued an expanded recall notice for Yardworks electric snowblowers sold at Canadian Tire due to a potential shock hazard.
The CFIA has issued a food notice for PC Blue Menu Chicken Tikka Masala, recalled due to undeclared almond.
“Do not use, sell, serve or distribute the affected product,” reads the CFIA recall notice published on March 11.
Loblaw confirmed the recalled PC Blue Menu Chicken Tikka Masala was sold nationally across all Loblaw banners, including at Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Zehrs, Loblaws, Valu-Mart, Maxi, Provigo, Intermarche, Your Independent Grocer, Dominion, Affiliate, Extra Foods, Fortinos, Independents, Retail RCWC, Wholesale Club and Shoppers Drug Mart.
Certain Reese branded hitch receiver locks sold in Canada have been recalled due to a potential crash hazard.
“Immediately stop using the recalled products and return them to the original retailer to obtain a replacement,” the Health Canada recall notice published on Feb. 14 tells customers.
The product was sold at Canadian Tire and potentially other stores.
Check out our previous week’s recall round up online.
You can report a food concern or complaint to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency online.
Consumers can report any health or safety incidents related to the use of products by filling out the Consumer Product Incident Report Form.
You can check for more recall notices published by Health Canada and the CFIA online.
