FoodMaxx Press Room

Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and FoodMaxx Stores Pulled Additional Pre-packaged Garden Highway Mixed Fruit Products With Sell-by Date of 03-24-08

Modesto, Calif., March 25, 2008 –Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and Food Maxx Stores have pulled additional mixed fruit products containing recalled cantaloupe.  Product is not on store shelves but we urge consumers to check their refrigerators for any Garden Highway fruit/melon mix or platter containing cantaloupe with
SELL BY dates of 03-22-08 and 03-24-08. 

Pre-packaged mixed fruit products with SELL BY date of 3-22-08 and 3-24-08:
Fruit Mix 6/12 oz. – UPC 8.26766-23600
Fruit Mix 6/24 oz. – UPC 8.26766-23605
Fruit Platter 3-4 lb. – UPC 8.26766-26730

Pre-packaged mixed fruit products with SELL BY date of 3-22-08:
Melon Mix 6/24 oz - (UPC 8.26766-21412)
Melon Mix 6/12 oz - (UPC 8.26766-24410)
Cantaloupe-Honeydew 6/12 oz (UPC 8.26766-20500)
Cantaloupe-Honeydew 6/24 oz (UPC 8.26766-20505)

Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and FoodMaxx customers can return the products to the stores for a full refund. Consumers can contact Renaissance Food Group toll-free at
1-888-499-9386 with any questions regarding the FDA alert and Garden Highway cut fruits and vegetables.

These products may contain fresh, cut cantaloupe from Honduran grower and packer Agropecuaria Montelibano included in a recall initiated by the FDA on Saturday, March 22, 2008. The cantaloupe appears to be associated with a Salmonella Litchfield outbreak in the U.S. and Canada.

Fresh, whole cantaloupes at Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and FoodMaxx stores were not impacted by the original FDA recall.

Save Mart Supermarkets was founded January 17, 1952 in Modesto, Calif. The privately owned company operates 250 stores throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada under the banners of Save Mart, Lucky, FoodMaxx, and S-Mart from its headquarters in Modesto. Visit us at our websites, www.savemart.com, www.luckysupermarkets.com and www.foodmaxx.com or call our consumer relations group toll-free at 800-692-5710.