No Frills, Walmart, other stores recall laundry products News

Health Canada is warning grocery shoppers about a massive recall of more than 56,000 laundry detergent products sold at popular grocery stores across Canada.

Tide Pods and Gain Flings liquid laundry detergent packets (bags) were sold between September 2023 and February 2024 and are being recalled due to a manufacturer's defect that could harm children.

“The packaging of the recalled product may be affected by a manufacturing defect,” Health Canada said in a recall notice. “This defect renders the child-resistant packaging damaged or inoperable. Failure to use child-resistant packaging may result in inadvertent exposure to these products and serious illness or injury.”

As of April 2, the company had not received any reports of incidents or injuries in Canada, Health Canada said.

Here are the affected products and codes:

Loblaw Companies Limited confirmed that the products were sold at the following stores, but have since been pulled from shelves:

• Ontario: Real Canadian Superstore, Fortinos, Loblaws, Valu-Mart, Your Ind Grocer, Zehrs, No Frills, Partnership, Wholesale Club, BOX, Shoppers Drug Market

• Atlantic Canada: Atlantic Superstore, Dominion, Atl Your Ind Grocer, Frills, Partnership, Wholesale Club, Shoppers Drug Market

Quebec: Loblaw, Provigo, Ind Franchise, Maxi, Maxi & Cie, Axep, Intermarche, Wholesale Club, Shoppers Drug Mart

Western Canada: Superstore, Ind Franchise, Your Ind Grocer, Extra Foods, Nofrills, Independents(Retail), Retail RCWC, Wholesale Club, BOX, Shoppers Drug Mart.

Sobeys spokeswoman Tshani Jaja said some of the products were sold at Sobeys, Safeway, Thrifty Foods, IGA and Foodland. “

Product safety is our top priority, and the recall process was immediately initiated as soon as we were notified,” Jaja said in an email. “All products related to this recall have been removed from our shelves and warehouses.”

Metro spokeswoman Stephanie Bonk said the product has been removed from Metro and Food Basics stores.

Felicia Fefer, a spokeswoman for Walmart Canada, said the store only had one Tide product and “we are processing the recall both in-store and online.”

Health Canada told consumers to “immediately store the recalled product out of the reach and sight of children” and contact Procter & Gamble.

Health Canada says affected customers will be provided with a prepaid gift card, a locker latch and an empty bag with a child-resistant seal.

For more information, customers can contact Procter & Gamble at 1-833-347-5764, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturdays, or online at tide.ca/bags or ilovegain.com/bags (English) and tide.ca/sacs or jadoregain.ca/sacs (French). Customers must provide a photo of the barcode and lot number located on the bottom of the bag.