In a recall discover shared on Tuesday, Lancaster Meals, LLC., stated it’s recalling a number of of its processed butternut squash merchandise produced in a number of states, together with North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Quite a lot of butternut squash merchandise are going through a recall over considerations they’re contaminated with listeria, based on a recall discover posted to the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) web site this week.
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“Out of an abundance of warning, Lancaster Meals has briefly halted manufacturing of these things because the FDA and the corporate examine the supply of the difficulty,” reads the recall discover. “Customers who’ve bought items famous above are urged to return them to the place of buy for a full refund.”
No sicknesses have been reported thus far, nonetheless.
SELECT PEPPERONI HOT POCKETS RECALLED OVER COMPLAINTS OF GLASS, PLASTIC IN PRODUCT
Listeriosis is a severe an infection usually brought on by consuming meals contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC).
Listeriosis could cause quite a lot of signs, and a few teams — specifically “younger youngsters, frail or aged folks, and others with weakened immune programs,” per the FDA — are at increased danger of extreme sickness.
For pregnant ladies, signs of invasive listeria could current as fever or different flu-like signs, and may also trigger miscarriage, stillbirth, untimely supply, or life-threatening an infection of the new child. In non-pregnant sufferers, signs typically embrace headache, stiff neck, confusion, lack of stability and convulsions.
A full checklist of recalled merchandise might be discovered right here.
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