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FDA expands listeria outbreak in bagged vegetables to several states

July 25, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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NATIONWIDE — RECALLED CUCUMBERS POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED WITH LISTERIA now include a wider variety of vegetables across more than a dozen states. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which earlier this month had issued a listeria outbreak warning, now announces that cucumbers, green beans, peppers and squash sold at Walmart and Aldi are part of the recall. Wiers Farm, based in Willard, Ohio, and which distributes the produce, expanded its recall to include more vegetables “out of an abundance of caution,” the company said in the recall notice on July 22, after issuing an initial recall of whole and salad cucumbers for possible listeria contamination on June 12. The recall now includes bagged vegetables such as green beans and peppers sold at Walmart and Aldi stores in several states.

Other bagged vegetables sold individually in bulk in 18 states have also been recalled for listeria risk, according to the FDA.

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