Growers Express has issued a recall for some of its vegetable products under the Green Giant Fresh, Trader Joe’s, and the Signature Farms brands, in connection with concerns they may be contaminated with listeria, the FDA announced. - TODAYShow
The Food and Drug Administration said the potentially affected foods come from a distribution center in Maine and were sold throughout the United States, with most available in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maine.
Most of the affected products are labeled with a “best if used by” date of June 26–June 29, 2019. No Green Giant canned or frozen vegetables are part of the recall.00:25 “Listeria is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems,” the FDA said. “Although healthy individuals may suffer short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headaches, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
About 1,600 people contract listeriosis annually, with roughly 260 dying from it. The infection is most likely to affect pregnant women and their newborn babies, people over the age of 65 and anyone with a weak immune system, reported the
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