Class I · Recall · initiated December 4, 2025 · Ongoing
Organic Living Superfoods recalls Healthy Truth moringa powder for Salmonella Richmond
A Walpole, Massachusetts firm recalled 88 pounds of Healthy Truth brand moringa powder in 5-pound and 20-pound sizes, shipped to five states, for possible Salmonella Richmond contamination; the recall remains ongoing.
The record
- Firm
- Organic Living Superfoods Llc, Walpole, MA
- Product
- Healthy Truth brand Moringa Powder; 5lb and 20lb
- Reason, as filed
- “Products may be contaminated with Salmonella Richmond.”
- Classification
- Class I (Class I: reasonable probability of serious health consequences or death)
- Recall number
- H-0393-2026
- Initiated
- December 4, 2025
- Posted by FDA
- January 21, 2026
- Status
- Ongoing · Voluntary: Firm initiated
- Quantity
- 88 lbs
- Distribution
- MD, NC, WA, CT, PA
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Why it happened, in plain English
The filed reason names an uncommon serotype, Salmonella Richmond, which means a laboratory isolated and typed the organism. The record does not say who tested it or which lot. The product is bulk moringa powder in 5-pound and 20-pound bags, not a retail capsule, and the quantity is 88 pounds total. Sizes like that are what a small brand buys to encapsulate, blend or repack. The record does not name any downstream buyer, but a 20-pound bag of moringa is rarely consumed by one household.
Moringa is a dried leaf. Drying preserves Salmonella rather than killing it, and the organism survives in low-moisture powders for a long time. A bulk lot that tests positive was positive when it was packed, and nothing a downstream buyer does short of a validated kill step changes that. Distribution was to Maryland, North Carolina, Washington, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
Who else should care
This is one of at least eight moringa and greens powder Salmonella recalls we count between November 2025 and September 2026. The records do not say they share a supplier, and we do not claim that. What they share is the acceptance step: botanical powder cleared on the supplier’s certificate of analysis rather than a test the buyer ran.
Small brands in those five states that bought moringa powder in 5-pound or 20-pound bags in late 2025 should ask what they received. Check: whether your incoming botanical powder is tested for Salmonella per lot by a lab you chose, before it is opened for production.
Written 2026-09-08. Analysis is editorial; the record above is FDA's.