This week's recalls: ravioli that's actually shrimp and lobster, and seven more to check for
Check this one first: ravioli that’s actually shrimp and lobster
Giovanni Rana’s Rustic Beef Sauce & Creamy Burrata Cheese Ravioli, the 32-ounce bag sold at Costco in Maryland and New Jersey, is not always beef and burrata inside. Some bags were filled with a shrimp and lobster filling instead, packaged under the beef label. USDA rates this a public health alert; two consumers had already complained before it was caught. Use-by dates run 05/14 through 06/25/2026.
This is the same trap as the peanut raisins and the chicken-salad tub from other weeks: the front of the package is honest about the brand and wrong about the filling. A shellfish-allergic household has no reason to hesitate over a package that says “beef.”
Six more to know
Fly By Jing’s Creamy Sesame Noodles went nationwide, single packs and 4-packs, after the company found a third-party manufacturer ran the noodles on equipment that also processes peanuts. Peanut was never an intended ingredient; this is cross-contact, not a labeling mistake. Lot codes carry best-by dates of October 15 and December 6, 2026, and March 23, 2027.
Market of Choice’s Vegan Kale Caesar Salad, 9.5 ounces, sold only in Oregon, left sesame off the label. The sesame comes from the Za’atar spice mixed into the chickpea topping, which is exactly the kind of sub-ingredient a label reader cannot see coming.
Canada (CFIA): Samjin Frozen Fish Cake (with Sauce & Shrimp) is Class 1, the top severity, for undeclared egg, gluten, and milk (the shrimp on the front is a real, declared ingredient; the problem is what’s not printed). Jia Fu Li Wasabi Green Peas, Class 2, for improperly declared soy.
Two more from Canada are lower severity but still worth a check: Galerie au chocolat’s plant-based chocolate and ZoRaw’s 72% Cacao Extra Dark Chocolate, both flagged for improperly declared milk (Class 3 and Class 2). “Improperly declared” means the milk is named somewhere on the package, just not the way the rules require, not a food that hides it entirely.
The UK
Daylesford Organic’s Minestrone Soup with Cannellini Beans, Pasta Shells & Olive Oil lists wheat and gluten in the ingredients, but not emphasised the way UK labeling law requires, which is why the FSA still calls it an alert. If you rely on the bolded allergen list rather than reading every ingredient, this is the kind of recall that would slip past you.
The pattern this week
Two different failure modes are doing the damage here. The ravioli and the noodles are the dangerous kind, a wrong filling and a manufacturing cross-contact, neither one visible from the front of the pack. The rest are labeling errors of varying severity, from a fully undeclared allergen (Samjin, Class 1) down to an allergen that is present on the label but not formatted correctly (Daylesford, ZoRaw, Galerie au chocolat). The Class rating is the fastest way to tell which end of that range you’re looking at.
Before you go
The recall notices, with photos and lot numbers, are linked on each product above. I run this sweep every week and post what an allergy household would actually want flagged.
Not medical advice. Every reaction is different, so follow the emergency action plan you built with your allergist; if you do not have one, that is the ask for your next visit. When a reaction is severe or you are not sure how bad it is, do not delay epinephrine, then call for help.