Moringa Salmonella recalls reach 15 since November, and the newest ones start at the bulk supplier

On July 8, Green Jeeva LLC, an ingredient supplier in Cerritos, California, recalled 2,490 kg of bulk organic moringa powder after it tested positive for Salmonella. By then the powder had already been used. FDA's Enforcement Report entry (H-1180-2026) says it went to four consignees "who have used the ingredient for further processing and distribution."

Eleven days later, Zen Principle Naturals recalled its moringa capsules after its ingredient supplier said "FDA testing of the moringa leaf powder used to manufacture the product returned positive for Salmonella." On August 14, The Hampton Grocers of Montauk, New York recalled its Lacnola Lactation Granola after an ingredient supplier reported a positive sample of its organic moringa powder.

Neither notice names the supplier, and we can't tell you whether either company bought from Green Jeeva. That gap is the story. When a bulk botanical powder is recalled, the finished products made from it come out one company announcement at a time, over weeks.

How we counted the moringa recalls

FDA publishes a recall in two places: the company's announcement on its recalls page, and one or more Enforcement Report entries once the agency classifies it. Adding them up double-counts, so we report both.

Between November 1, 2025 and August 25, 2026, FDA published 25 moringa-linked Salmonella recall entries: 16 Class I Enforcement Report entries and 9 company announcements. They collapse into 15 recall events at 14 companies. Live it Up Super Greens appears as two entries sharing one 795,834-unit total, so we counted it once. Zen Principle's announcement and the enforcement entry filed by its manufacturer, FACTORY6, are one event. Member's Mark Super Greens and Live it Up are included because FDA's outbreak advisories tie both to moringa leaf powder, though moringa is one ingredient among several.

Recall began	Company	Product	Quantity
Oct 24, 2025	MeriCal (Member's Mark, Sam's Club)	Super Greens powder	698,064 units
Oct 31, 2025	Bulk & Organic	Bulk moringa powder, 44.1 lb bags	565 bags
Nov 4, 2025	Africa Imports	Moringa leaf powder	31 boxes sold from the lot
Nov 11, 2025	Food to Live (Lexunder)	Moringa powder, Supergreens mix	860 units
Dec 4, 2025	Organic Living Superfoods	Healthy Truth moringa powder	88 lbs
Jan 15, 2026	Superfoods Inc.	Live it Up Super Greens	795,834 units
Jan 28, 2026	Why Not Natural	Moringa capsules	8,500 bottles
Feb 13, 2026	Ambrosia Brands	Rosabella moringa capsules	1,224,208 units
May 22, 2026	Total Nutrition	Green superfood moringa capsules	13,000 bottles
May 24, 2026	Mogo Moringa	Moringa capsules	23,186 bottles
Jun 24, 2026	Trafa Pharmaceutical	Bulk moringa leaf powder	500 kg
Jun 26, 2026	Total Nutrition	Organic moringa capsules and powder	8,492 units
Jul 8, 2026	Green Jeeva	Bulk moringa powder	2,490 kg
Jul 19, 2026	Zen Principle (FACTORY6)	Moringa capsules	2,048 bottles
Aug 14, 2026	The Hampton Grocers	Lactation granola	Not stated

Dates are recall initiation dates from the Enforcement Report, or the announcement date where no entry has posted yet. Rosabella, Live it Up, and Member's Mark alone account for 2.72 million units.

Four outbreaks, 186 illnesses

FDA and CDC have run four separate outbreak investigations tied to moringa since October 2025. Final counts: 186 illnesses and 53 hospitalizations, no deaths.

The largest investigation closed twice. FDA closed it on March 17, reopened it May 27 after 22 new illnesses, and closed it again on July 22 at 131 people in 38 states. Of 84 people interviewed, 74 reported eating a moringa product, 63 of them Live it Up Super Greens only. Illness onsets ran from August 22, 2025 to June 14, 2026. FDA's advisories keep repeating why: these products have a long shelf life. The Rosabella strains, per FDA, were resistant to all first-line and alternative antibiotics commonly recommended for Salmonella.

Two companies keep coming back

Total Nutrition of Deer Park, New York has six entries across two separate events. The first started when FDA and CDC told the company its TNVitamins and Doctor's Pride green superfood capsules might be part of the outbreak. It expanded the recall twice, on June 2 and June 11, each time after a traceability review found more finished lots made from the same raw material lot. The second event came out of FDA's investigation work. The agency sampled one of Total Nutrition's ingredient suppliers, and two samples were positive for Salmonella that did not match the outbreak strain. Total Nutrition then recalled its 100% Organic Moringa capsules and powder "following a supplier-initiated recall."

Food to Live (Lexunder Inc., Brooklyn) recalled its moringa leaf powder and Organic Supergreens Powder Mix in November 2025. Both were made from the single Vallon Farmdirect lot (Jodhpur, India) behind the October 2025 outbreak. On August 7, 2026, it recalled spirulina, wheatgrass, SuperGrass, and algae powders after an FDA retail sample of Organic Supergreens Mix tested positive. The company says the source hasn't been determined. One code in the August lot list, VFD/ORG/MORP/B/25, has the same format as the Vallon batch number in that outbreak (VFD/ORG/MORP/L/24). The notice doesn't say what the code refers to, so treat it as a question to put to the company.

The bulk supplier problem

Three entries in the count are bulk ingredient lots.

Bulk & Organic of Northvale, New Jersey recalled 565 bags of moringa powder at 44.1 lb each. The lot code on the entry is VFD/ORG/MORP/L/24, the Vallon lot. FDA's traceback for that outbreak ran from eight retail points of sale back to one direct importer.

Trafa Pharmaceutical of Chicopee, Massachusetts recalled 500 kg of organic moringa leaf powder, batch TRF-2025050801, manufactured May 8, 2025 and shipped to New York. The recall started June 24, 2026, more than 13 months after manufacture. Total Nutrition, a New York company, announced its supplier-initiated recall two days later. No public record connects the two, and we are not saying they're linked.

Green Jeeva, as above: 2,490 kg, four consignees, already processed. It started its recall July 8. FDA classified it July 21 and published it July 29. If your early warning is the weekly Enforcement Report, you are about three weeks behind the supplier.

Why botanical powders keep failing

Moringa leaf is dried and milled, then goes into capsules, smoothie powders, and granola without a cooking step. Eight of the 15 events involved moringa labeled organic, and organic rules prohibit ionizing radiation (7 CFR 205.105(f)), which removes one pathogen reduction option for dried botanicals.

Testing misses it. Mogo said independent testing of retained samples from its recalled lots found no Salmonella. Health departments in Washington, Tennessee, and Florida each found the outbreak strain in open containers of Mogo capsules. Our reading: Salmonella in a dry powder is sparse and unevenly spread, so a negative result on a small sample says little about a 15 kg bag.

FDA's response so far is mostly at the border. It says it has increased screening of moringa powder imported from India, and between May 18 and July 31, 2026 it added moringa listings for seven Indian firms to Import Alert 99-19, which allows detention without physical examination for Salmonella. FDA also inspected Mogo's ingredient supplier and manufacturer and issued inspection observations to both. We found no warning letter tied to moringa contamination in our records as of August 25.

What to demand from your moringa or greens supplier

If you make dietary supplements, 21 CFR 111.70(b)(3) requires component specifications that limit contamination, and 111.75(a)(2)(ii) lets you rely on a supplier's certificate of analysis only after you have qualified that supplier by confirming its results, then re-confirm periodically. Food makers using moringa carry the same exposure; Hampton Grocers makes granola. Ask for:

1. Lot-level Salmonella results with the sampling plan. Method, number and size of analytical units, and the lab. "Negative" with no sample plan is not much evidence.
2. Origin down to the processor. Name, country, and FEI number, checked against Import Alert 99-19.
3. Whether the powder had a validated pathogen reduction step, and which one. If it's organic, ask what they use.
4. A notification commitment in the contract. Any positive result or FDA sample on any lot from the same source, within 24 hours, including lots you didn't buy.

Then map which finished SKUs and lots used each incoming ingredient lot. Total Nutrition had to expand its recall twice to find all of them.

If you don't use moringa or greens powders: no action needed on this one.

Sources

• FDA Enforcement Report entries H-0204, H-0205, H-0222, H-0309, H-0310, H-0393, H-0433, H-0434, H-0510, H-0546, H-0942, H-1128, H-1144, H-1180, H-1185, H-1222 (all 2026 fiscal year) via openFDA
• FDA outbreak advisories: October 2025, January 2026, February 2026, May 2026
• Company announcements: Total Nutrition, Mogo, Zen Principle, The Hampton Grocers, Food to Live, August 2026
• Our April analysis of the first three outbreaks: Moringa Salmonella outbreak 2026

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