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FDA Lists Class I Nationwide Recall of Two TNVitamins Moringa Products Over Salmonella

An FDA enforcement report records 8,492 units of moringa capsules and powder distributed by Total Nutrition Inc as contaminated with Salmonella, in an action the agency lists as ongoing.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 9:43 a.m. ET
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's enforcement report, recall number , lists a recall of two moringa products distributed by : TNVitamins 100% Organic Moringa Capsules 1,200 mg and TNVitamins 100% Organic Moringa Powder 96 grams. The record gives the identifying codes as Product# AB9917, Lot #2800, Exp 2/2028, and Product# AB9904, Lot #2782, Exp 5/2028, and puts the quantity at 8,492 total units. The stated reason is that the product is . The recall was initiated on 26 June 2026 and reported on 29 July 2026, and the agency lists its status as . This is a developing action. The FDA classified the recall as , which the agency defines as its most serious category, used where there is a reasonable probability that using the product will cause serious harm or death. On Salmonella, the FDA says the bacterium causes salmonellosis, that most people develop diarrhoea, fever and abdominal cramps between 12 and 72 hours after infection, that illness usually lasts four to seven days, and that in some cases it is severe enough to require hospitalisation, with young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems at greatest risk. Both items are finished consumer retail products rather than bulk ingredients — the kind of packaged dietary supplement sold in supplement shops, health-food aisles and online and used directly in the home — so those holding them are individual purchasers rather than downstream manufacturers. Both are made from the leaves of the moringa tree (Moringa oleifera), a small, fast-growing, drought-tolerant deciduous tree also called the drumstick or horseradish tree, which occurs naturally in South Asia and is now cultivated across Africa, South America, Asia and the Middle East, according to Britannica, Winrock International, a review in the National Library of Medicine's PMC archive and the University of California's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. Its leaves, pods and flowers are used as food; for products of this kind the harvested leaves are dried and ground into a fine green powder, then either packaged loose — here a 96-gram pack — or filled into capsules at a set weight, here 1,200 mg. "100% organic" refers to the certification of the farming and handling. The agency's own database records one other action by this firm: a recall dated 17 June 2026 of TNVitamins Ultrapotent Complete Green Superfood Moringa Capsules, where the product may have been . That record says nothing about fault in the present action. The same database shows 455 food recalls citing Salmonella in the last two years, including entries dated 29 July 2026 for Green Jeeva LLC organic moringa powder in 15kg bulk bags and 15 July 2026 for Trafa Pharmaceutical Inc. organic moringa leaf; other firms' recalls are not evidence about this one.

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  1. Version 67 Aug 2026, 13:43current

    No new facts; text unchanged apart from adding a headline and standfirst summarising the recall record.

  2. Version 57 Aug 2026, 10:21

    Replaced the product-background paragraph's unsupported LiverTox and Dietary Supplement Label Database references with the botanical and manufacturing detail from the supplied Britannica, Winrock, PMC and UC SAREP sources.

  3. Version 47 Aug 2026, 06:31

    Corrected the product-background attribution to Britannica and NIH sources (removing an unsupported Winrock International citation) and added the NIH label-database detail on retail forms.

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    Replaced the plant-database description of moringa with one attributed to Britannica and Winrock International, removed metric height and cultivation details, and added those source links.

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    Replaced the unsourced Britannica/Winrock plant description with the Plants For A Future entry and corrected the product-format details to match the reference data.

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