Senior Citizen Alert: Product Recalls

This week we have recalls on SUVs, cucumbers, disinfecting wipes, snow blowers, lawnmowers and smoked salmon.

Toyota Recalls 308,000 RAV4 and Highlanders for Faulty Air-Bag Sensors
The recall covers about 214,000 RAV4s from the 2007-8 model years and 94,000 Highlander and Highlander hybrids from 2008, the automaker.

Nature's Delight Cucumbers
A North Carolina vegetable and fruit distributor has recalled cucumbers distributed to nine states, including Illinois and Indiana, after some of the vegetables distributed to Florida were found contaminated with salmonella, according to the company.

The bulk cartons are marked Nature's Delight and have lot number PL-RID-002990.

Anyone with questions about the recall can call L&M at 919-981-8003, although the hotline is only staffed Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central Time. Messages left over the weekend will be returned, according to the company.

Disenfecting Wipes
Since December, Triad Group and its sister company, H&P Industries Inc., recalled a score of alcohol prep pads that it made for companies including Walgreens and CVS. The products were recalled because of potential contamination from bacillus cereus, a bacterium that could cause a potentially serious infection. Consumers who have to take medical injections -- like diabetics -- use prep pads to clean and disinfect their skin before the injections.

Iodine prep pads are also beinf recalled. These wipes are in many first aid kits
http://www.walletpop.com/2011/04/25/medical-disinfecting-wipes-fda-adds-to-the-recall/

Toro Recalls Nearly 30,000 Snowblowers, Lawnmowers (TTC)
Toro power clear snowblowers and the Toro 20" recycler mowers manufactured by The Toro Company, of Bloomington, Minn., and sold at Toro Dealers in the United States and Canada from September 2009 through March 2011.

The Fresh Market Signature Collection: Atlantic Smoked Salmon
Woodsmoke Provisions Voluntarily Recalls 160 packages of 4 oz. The Fresh Market Signature Collection Atlantic Smoked Salmon Due to Possible Health Risk

he 160 packages of product subject to recall were distributed and sold only in a limited number of The Fresh Market, Inc. stores located in AR, FL, GA, IL, KY, MD, NC, OH and TN.

The product being recalled was packaged in 4 oz. plastic packages with the specific lot code 1459/2 which was manufactured January 15, 2010. The item UPC code is 737094000370.

Consumers who have purchased this product from one of the above-mentioned stores with lot code 1459/2 should not consume it, and are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 404-355-5125, Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm (EST).

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