A food -based food company has thrown several of its prefabricated food offers from California companies and three other states after federal regulators found a strain of Listeria in their team linked to an outbreak in the last start.
Fresh & Ready foods, based in San Fernando, voluntarily withdrew several or their sandwiches and prefabricated protein snacks, including several varieties of ham and turkey sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, tuna paste and a street corn dipper. The items were sold under three brands: fresh and ready foods, fresh foods of the City Point market to go and resort.
Voluntarily withdrawal food was distributed between April 18 and 28 of this year in California, Nevada, Arizona and Washington. It was sold in vending machines and other environments in hospitals, hotels, convenience stores and airports, and by airlines. Removed articles have “use for” from April 22 to May 19.
The withdrawal was promoted by a routine inspection this April in a Fresh & Ready installation where the researchers found a strain of Listeria monocytogenes in a team, according to the company’s press releases and federal officials. Fresh & Ready workers withdrew the team and token other actions to remedy the problem, the company said in a statement.
The symptoms of a Listeria infection include fever, muscle aches, fatigue, headache, rigid neck, confusion, loss of balance and even seizures, according to CDC. It can also include intestinal problems such as Darrhea and Vomiting.
Listeria infections are especially serious for any pregnant person, since a pregnancy from the king of Listeria infection can make a patient embrace, deliver a fetal death or give the baby early. It can also cause a life infection for the newborn. Others who are in a higher danger should develop a Listeria infection are adults of 65 years or more, and people with immune systems of weakening, according to CDC.
The outbreak was originally identified in 2024 when the officials of the United States Food and Medicines Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began to investigate a group of people sick by Listeria. They failed to obtain enough evidence to identify the outbreak source.
When the researchers found the Listeria in the Fresh & Ready team this year, FDA scientists used the sequencing analysis of the complete genome, which confirmed that the tension of the listeria found in fresh and ready food Voltage of the voltage of the inheritance of the voltage tension of the voltage of the voltage of the voltage of the voltage. This led officials to harden their investigation.
No disease has bone linked to retired foods, and adjustment, Fresh & Ready took out the articles “as a precautionary measure to guarantee the continuous security of our consumers,” said the company in a statement published on Saturday.
In 2024, at least eight people were sick from contaminated products in California and two in Nevada, according to CDC.
State and local health officials interviewed six of the people who contracted Listeria and discovered that they were getting into the hospital before bacteria became ill. Foods ready to eat made of fresh and ready foods were served in at least three of the facilities where hospitalized patients had been.
Anyone who has bought foods that appear in retirement must throw it immediately, said the company. Consumers can communicate with Fresh & Ready Foods in Relall Farsh@hotlineglobal.com, or calling (855) 424-8390 from 5 am to 3 pm from Monday to Friday to ask questions or request a complete refund.
