Class I · Recall · initiated April 21, 2026 · Ongoing
Honeyville recalls bulk banana smoothie base made with a Salmonella-suspect ingredient
Honeyville of Ogden, Utah recalled 4,980 pounds of a bulk banana smoothie beverage base shipped in super sack totes to California and Utah customers after learning it had used an ingredient potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
The record
- Firm
- Honeyville, Inc, Ogden, UT
- Product
- (BULK) SPL-BEV Banana CWT (Banana Smoothie); Super Sack Tote Item# 355-0099
- Reason, as filed
- “Firm received and used potentially contaminated (Salmonella) ingredient to manufacture various products.”
- Classification
- Class I (Class I: reasonable probability of serious health consequences or death)
- Recall number
- H-0849-2026
- Initiated
- April 21, 2026
- Posted by FDA
- June 3, 2026
- Status
- Ongoing · Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Quantity
- 4980 pounds (all on hold at customer location)
- Distribution
- Distribution is to California and Utah consignees.
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Why it happened, in plain English
The filed reason says the firm “received and used potentially contaminated (Salmonella) ingredient to manufacture various products.” The record does not name the ingredient or its supplier. The recalled item is a single bulk SKU, “SPL-BEV Banana CWT (Banana Smoothie),” in a super sack tote, with 4,980 pounds “all on hold at customer location.” The reason says “various products,” but this filing lists one.
This is the best kind of ingredient-cascade recall to be in: the product was still in totes at the customer, and the whole quantity is accounted for. Super sacks are the bulk-bag format used for dry ingredients, and a dry beverage base is a blend of powders with no kill step after blending, so a contaminated input goes straight through. In general terms, what put Honeyville in this position was the supplier’s notice, and what kept it small was that the customer had not yet opened the totes.
Who else should care
Dry blenders that make custom beverage bases, smoothie mixes and nutrition powders for other brands in bulk. When a supplier tells you a lot is suspect, every blend that used it is now a recall, and the customers who received totes become the consignees on the filing. A hold at the customer is the difference between a paperwork recall and a consumer one.
Brands that buy a bulk base from a blender and package it under their own name should notice the hold line. A tote sitting unopened is a recall with no consumer exposure. Check: whether your receiving procedure holds a new bulk lot until the blender’s COA and ingredient lot list are on file, so a supplier notice can stop the tote before it becomes finished goods.
Written 2026-09-08. Analysis is editorial; the record above is FDA's.