5# Sunflower Seeds C/S

George J Howe Company, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 July 2026 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm is recalling sunflower seed products due to the presence of an undeclared tree nut allergen, cashew.

The record

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Product

5# Sunflower Seeds C/S

Reason for recall

The firm is recalling sunflower seed products due to the presence of an undeclared tree nut allergen, cashew.

Recalling firm

George J Howe Company, Inc.

Firm location

Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Ongoing

Recall number

H-1121-2026

Quantity

19.00 Cases

Distribution

The recalled product was distributed to the following States: AL, AR, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, VA,WI,WV,

Initiated

29 April 2026

Reported by FDA

1 July 2026

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

00501138

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 6 of them.
• This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
• The distribution pattern names 24 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
• Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia. 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

The allergens named in this record: tree nuts.

Filed under nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.

Other nuts and seeds 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 George J Howe Company, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.

All 6 records for George J Howe Company, Inc.

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