Almost 10million pounds of meat in frozen dinners and packaged salads are being recalled for possible listeria contamination.
Affected products were sold by popular grocery chains and distributors including Trader Joe’s, Kroger, Amazon Fresh and Jenny Craig, according to US regulators.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) updated its list of the recalled items on Friday.
It includes Trader Joe’s Lemon Chicken & Arugula salad, Amazon Fresh Fiesta and Caesar salads, Jenny Craig’s Classic Chicken Carbonara, and Kroger Southwest Style Salad with Chicken.
Other brands in the USDA’s 326-page document were 7-Eleven, ReadyMeals, Taylor Farms, Giant Eagle, H-E-B, RaceTrac, Raley’s, The Save Mart Companies, Wegmans, Udis, Boston Market, Michelina’s, Good & Gather and Rao’s.
No consumers have reported sickness linked to eating the products yet.
The USDA first released a list on October 9 that only had product codes and abbreviations and made it hard for customers to identify affected items.
‘We are updating all the products with labels as soon as we get the information,’ a USDA spokesperson told the New York Post.
The frozen dinners and salads recall comes after a Boar’s Head listeria recall in July that included more than seven million pounds of cold cut meats. The listeria outbreak caused 10 deaths and dozens more to be hospitalized.
Inspectors found insects, mold and mildew in the Boar’s Head factory in Jarratt, Virginia, where the tainted meat was made. The USDA is investigating the Florida-based company for possible criminal charges.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August called it ‘the largest listeriosis outbreak since the 2011 outbreak linked to cantaloupe’.
Listeria can survive in frozen foods despite the cold temperature they are kept in.
The bacteria can cause listeriosis, which is a serious foodborne illness that can cause serious symptoms especially for pregnant women and the elderly.
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