Whole Foods Medium Pico de Gallo Guacamole Dip, Keep Refrigerated. Packed in various…
WFM Purchasing, LP recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 August 2026 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Salsa and Guacamole products were made with jalapenos that may be contaminated with Salmonella.
The record
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Product
Whole Foods Medium Pico de Gallo Guacamole Dip, Keep Refrigerated. Packed in various sized clear plastic containers. Product is weighed and a finished product label is applied. Products contain the following PLU Cods located under label bar code: 29802800000. Packed for Whole Foods Market, located at either 1745 W. Market Street, Akron, OH 44313 or 4301 W. William Cannon, Austin, TX 78749.
Reason for recall
Salsa and Guacamole products were made with jalapenos that may be contaminated with Salmonella.
AR, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MI, MN, MO, OH, OK, TX, WI
Initiated
7 August 2026
Reported by FDA
26 August 2026
Firm notified by
E-Mail
Product codes
Best Before/By Date: 8/7/2026 - 8/12/2026
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 10 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 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. 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 10 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 13 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Snacks and confectionery recall for allergens more than for anything else, because a chocolate or a coated snack passes through shared equipment carrying milk, soy and nuts, and the label is the only control between them and the consumer.
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination 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 117.135(c)(1)
Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
21 CFR 117 subpart G
Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Other snacks and confectionery 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.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
