Hometown Food Company is voluntarily recalling specific lots of their 5 lb. Pillsbury Best Bread Flour product due to potential E. coli contamination, according to a Department of Defense All Food and Drug Activity message sent June 15.

Army Lt. Col. Angela M. Parham is the Defense Commissary Agency’s new director of public health and safety, announced Rogers E. Campbell, executive director of DeCA’s Store Operations Group.

When it comes to public health and safety in military commissaries, the Department of Defense has unique standards to match the stores’ special patronage – the men and women serving in uniform and their families. It’s those standards that set commissaries apart from commercial grocers, said Army Col. Alisa R. Wilma, the Defense Commissary Agency’s former director of public health and safety.

This summer boys and girls in 11 military communities will be able to enjoy a football ProCamp event with a “Heroic, Resilient, Courageous” theme thanks to groceries sold in their commissaries.

Topco Associates, LLC. is voluntarily recalling TopCare Mouthwash because the affected product has an incorrect back label according to a recall notice from the Defense Commissary Agency’s food safety office sent June 12.

Johnsonville, LLC. is voluntarily recalling over 95,000 pounds of its ready-to-eat jalapeño cheddar smoked sausage products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically hard green plastic, according to a Department of Defense All Food and Drug Activity message sent June 1.

The United States Army marks its 244th anniversary on June 14. The history of commissaries and the military actually go hand in hand. It’s a relationship that lives on today with the Defense Commissary Agency as 77 of its stores operate on Army installations serving active duty soldiers, Army Reservists and National Guardsmen, and Army retirees and their family members.