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Fresh & Ready Foods is voluntarily recalling galore products, aft astatine slightest 10 radical successful the U.S. person been sickened successful a listeria outbreak linked to its ready-to-eat nutrient products, national officials said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Saturday that federal, authorities and section officials are investigating the outbreak linked to foods produced by the San Fernando, California-based nutrient producer.
The FDA says the 10 radical who fell sick were successful California and Nevada, and required hospitalization.
This voluntary callback is being initiated owed to imaginable contamination with listeria monocytogenes, an organism that tin origin superior and sometimes fatal infections successful young children, frail oregon aged people, and others with weakened immune systems, according to the FDA.
Healthy individuals whitethorn acquisition short-term symptoms including precocious fever, terrible headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal symptom and diarrhea, the callback announcement states. Pregnant women infected by the organism tin acquisition miscarriages and stillbirths.
Affected products
The voluntary callback is constricted to products with "Use By" dates from 4/22/2025 to 05/19/2025. The FDA says the products were sold successful Arizona, California, Nevada and Washington astatine locations including retailers and nutrient work points of sale, including hospitals, hotels, convenience stores, airports and by airlines.
You tin spot the afloat database of products, including size, point numbers, packaging and used-by dates here.
Packaging statement of 1 of much than 60 products Fresh & Ready Foods is voluntarily recalling, aft astatine slightest 10 radical successful the U.S. person been sickened successful a listeria outbreak
FDA
Listeria symptoms usually commencement wrong 2 weeks of eating contaminated food. Mild cases tin see musculus aches, tiredness and vomiting and diarrhea, portion much terrible symptoms whitethorn see stiff neck, confusion, nonaccomplishment of equilibrium and convulsions.
Federal officials said they started investigating the caller outbreak past twelvemonth but didn't person capable grounds to place a root of the infections. They said the probe was reopened successful April erstwhile FDA investigators recovered listeria successful samples collected from Fresh & Ready Foods that matched the strain from the outbreak.
Fresh & Ready Foods said successful a quality merchandise that it took contiguous corrective actions including removing instrumentality to code the issue.
The FDA recovered that six of the 10 radical who got sick had been hospitalized earlier becoming sick with listeria. The FDA recovered that items made by Fresh & Ready Foods had been served successful astatine slightest 3 of the wellness attraction facilities wherever the patients had been antecedently treated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the trial samples from sick patients were collected from December 2023 to September 2024.
Fresh & Ready voluntarily recalled respective products, which tin beryllium identified by "use by" dates ranging from April 22 to May 19 of this twelvemonth nether the marque names Fresh & Ready Foods, City Point Market Fresh Food to Go and Fresh Take Crave Away.
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