Meijer Stores have announced that they are recalling store brand raw vegetable trays, and packaged produce, over concerns that they potentially are contaminated with Listeria.
The vegetables were sold at Meijer stores in Illinois, as well as Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. Contaminated vegetable trays would have been purchased September 27th through October 20th.
From the release:
Meijer is announcing a recall of various packaged Meijer brand produce items due to a potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms like high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, a Listeria monocytogenes infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
A full list of the affected products can be found here.
Customers are not to eat the products and either discard it, or return it to the service desk at their Meijer store. Anyone with questions may call 800-543-3704, representatives are available 24 hours a day.
