Concerning the recent FDA alert on Jalapeño Peppers
Specialty Produce is dedicated to offering a quality product to our customers and will take all necessary Food Safety steps to accomplish this task.
- Specialty Produce faxed an advisory letter to all of our customers on July 22nd. A copy can be found here as HTML or PDF.
- Specialty Produce will stop the sale of jalapeños and serrano chilies on 7/22/08 until further notice. Yellow, anaheim, and pablano chilies can be substituted for the concerned chilies.
- Specialty Produce faxed an advisory letter to all of our customers on July 23rd. A copy can be found here as HTML or PDF.
- Specialty Produce has resumed the sale of jalapeños and serrano chilies on 7/23/08. We are purchasing our chiles from California and the outbreak is believed to originate in Mexico.
Specialty Produce takes Food Safety very seriously.
Specialty Produce is HACCP Certified and has received an A rating from the County of San Diego, as well as being frequently audited by interested 3rd partries.