> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.foodconsumer.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Whole Foods Market® in FLORIDA issues voluntary recall of prepared foods items made with raw onions - URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/whole_foods_market-n-0728120843/ - Published: 2012-07-28T21:41:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-22T16:15:18.000Z - Description: Whole Foods Market's 17 Florida stores are recalling prepared-foods items and one seafood item made with raw yellow onions from Gills Onions, which recalled its product over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. No complaints or illnesses have been reported. - Author: Food Consumer - Tags: Alerts, Shopping, #vivvo-import ### Recall -- Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. ### Whole Foods Market® in FLORIDA issues voluntary recall of prepared foods items made with raw onions due to potential health risk **Contact:** Media: Russ Benblatt 954-489-2098 [russ.benblatt@wholefoods.com ](mailto:russ.benblatt@wholefoods.com954-489-2098)Kate Lowery 512-542-0390 [kate.lowery@wholefoods.com](mailto:kate.lowery@wholefoods.com) Consumers: [http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm](http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm?ref=foodconsumer.org) **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** \- July 27, 2012 - (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) – Whole Foods Market in the state of Florida only has initiated a voluntary recall of certain fresh food items sold in prepared foods departments, as well as one item sold in seafood departments of their 17 Florida stores. The items are being recalled as they could have been made using raw yellow onions processed by Gills Onions, LLC, which initiated a recall on their product due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. To date, there have been no complaints or illnesses reported to Whole Foods Market or to the Food & Drug Administration involving the products being recalled. Any of the following items below that were offered in the prepared foods department-either the full service counters and cases, self service hot and cold bars, and/or the prepackaged food sections- contain raw onions and are subject to this recall. Conch salad was the one item offered in the seafood department. Baby Shrimp Salad Beet & Goat Cheese Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette Beet Dressing Chunky Ranch Vegetable Salad No Oil Added Cranberry Tuna Salad Roll Family Sized Savings Thousand Island Potato Salad Miso Dressing Miso Kissed Cukes New York City Corned Beef On Rye Pasta with Long Beans & Arame in Creamy Beet Vinaigrette Ranch Dressing No Oil Added Ranch Iceberg Salad Wedge No Oil Added Russian Coleslaw Russian Salad Santa Fe Turkey Salad No Oil Added Seasonal Succotash Shrimp Salad Sandwich Shrimp with Snow Peas Soy & The Sea Tempeh Salad Thousand Island Chicken Salad Thousand Island Chicken Salad Roll Thousand Island Chicken Salad Sandwich Thousand Island Potato Salad Thousand Island Shrimp Salad Thousand Island Surimi Thousand Island Surimi Crab Salad Roll Thousand Island Surimi Salad Three Bean Salad Tofu Japonaise Tuna with Cranberries Salad Sandwich Tuna with Sun-Dried Cranberries Tuna with Sun-Dried Cranberries & Lemon Turkey Spring Roll The potentially affected products were prepared and sold at the company’s 17 Florida locations only, between July 7, 2012 and July 27, 2012\. The stores include: Biscayne, Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Coral Springs, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Naples, Palm Beach Gardens, Pembroke Pines, Phillips Crossing, Pinecrest, Plantation, Sarasota, South Beach, Tampa, Wellington and Winter Park. Customers should dispose of the products and return to their local Florida location with receipt to receive a refund. For more information on the onion recall visit:[http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm](http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm?ref=foodconsumer.org). Customers with questions about the recall may contact the customer service desk at their local store. The FDA states that Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. ###