Italian Salad Dressing; Net 1 GAL (3.78L) SKU: 7 67367 00518 4 Creamy Poblano Avocado…
VENTURA FOODS LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 December 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. foreign objects (black plastic planting material) in granulated onion
The record
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- Product
- Italian Salad Dressing; Net 1 GAL (3.78L) SKU: 7 67367 00518 4 Creamy Poblano Avocado Ranch Dressing and Dip; Net Contents 1 GAL93.78L) SKU: 7 34730 53243 1 Ventura Caesar Dressing; Net WT 2000LB (907.1kg) SKU: 00 026700 17360 8 Pepper Mill Regal Caesar Dressing; 1 GAL (128 FL OZ) 3.79 L SKU: 0 93901 72607 0 Pepper Mill Creamy Caesar Dressing; 1 GAL (128 FL OZ) 3.79 L SKU: 0 93901 78134 5 Ceasar Dressing (Costco Service Deli) NET WT: 23.62 LB (10.71 kg) SKU: 0 26700 19376 7 Ceasar Dressing (Costco Food Court) NET WT: 32 LB (14.51 kg) SKU: 0 26700 19376 7 Hidden Valley, Buttermilk Ranch; NET 1 GAL (3.79L) SKU: 0 26700 19192 3
- Reason for recall
- foreign objects (black plastic planting material) in granulated onion
- Recalling firm
- VENTURA FOODS LLC
- Firm location
- Irvine, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0235-2026
- Quantity
- 3,556 cases
- Distribution
- The firm distributed product to 7 retail customers across 42 locations in the following states; KY, NH, SC, GA, FL, MN, MI, IL, MD, NJ, NC, WI, NE, VA, MO, LA, PA, IN, WA, CO, OK, AR, KS, TX, OH, ND, OR. The firm also distributed product to one customer in Costa Rica.
- Initiated
- 6 November 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 10 December 2025
- Terminated
- 20 April 2026
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot Code: Monarch- B29525 Sysco- MFG101625H Ventura- P27525 Pepper Mill Regal- H29025 Pepper Mill Creamy- H29025 Costco-B28025; B28125; B28225; B29025; B29125; B29225 Costco Food Court- 03/04/2026 Hidden Valley- MFG102725H
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This is one of 2 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 6 November 2025 to termination on 20 April 2026. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The distribution pattern names 26 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
Named in the distribution pattern: Kentucky, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Washington, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Ohio, North Dakota. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under milk and dairy, fresh produce, sauces, dips and condiments, spices and seasonings and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | Publix Deli Carolina-Style Mustard BBQ Sauce; 96- 2OZ NET WT: 12 LB SKU: 10 026700 16964 6 | VENTURA FOODS LLC | foreign objects (black plastic planting material) in granulated onion | Class II |
Other milk and dairy recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from VENTURA FOODS LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 25 other records name this firm.
All 26 records for Ventura Foods, LLC
All 2025 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.40 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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