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[Kachina624]

This could become a major mess with thousands of fruits and vegetables being affected.  One person has died, several hospitalized and no one as a clue as to the source.

http://www.wzzm13.com/money/consumer/listeria-risk-prompts-massive-frozen-food-recall-at-popular-sto...

[hckynut]

never heard of that brand. thank you for the PSA, i am sure it will help others.

hnj

[ROMARY]

Thanks for the alert!  I've been using canned fruits and vegetables for years and years, mainly because there wasn't enough room to keep extra frozen items in freezer.  I guess I initally was and have been thinking that canned items are somewhat cooked/steamed/processed/whatever before they are canned, which might be more safe. (?)   (Well, who knows....)

[Goldengate8361]

Yikes!

[geraldine]

Click on FDA Website (highlited in the article) and see the numerous brands affected by the recall.

[FastDogWalker2]

I shop at BJ's and Trader Joe's.  Last week I returned all of my frozen veggies to Trader Joe's for a refund and today in the mail I received a letter from BJ's asking me to return the things that I had purchased there that could be affected for a refund.  I decided to be proactive and take this potential threat seriously.

[Mindy D]

Here is an updated listing of the frozen foods. The list includes Great Value brand, which I think is Walmart's own brand.http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm498841.htm

[Q4u]

It's very frightening, especially since we totally depend on our food sources to be safe.

Canned foods are usually safe unless they've been dented in some way, which can (but not always) create a microscopic hole in the can where air can get into it and might cause the content to become spoiled)..... always check your cans by feeling them for dents before buying them.  

Frozen items we have to take a leap of faith that they have been processed properly.

Also restaurants can be sources and the poor customers have no idea what happened.... or think it's flu.

DH and I ate at a local Mexican restaurant and 6 hours later I vomited violently until my stomach was totally emply.  Whoa that was hard... and that meal was all I had since the day before.  DH doesn't vomit.... but he got really sick for about 5 days.... couldn't eat, had bathroom difficulties.  We are ~absolutely~ convinced it was the lunch we had there.  We mentioned it to them and they immediately thought it was from something/somewhere else, so it's so difficult to pinpoint. 

We've not been back.....  

[novamc1]

This is rather old news at this point, although more foods might be included than before. No one single brand is affected, because the Pasco, Washington,  food processor where the problem originated sells to many different well-known grocery store chains under many different brands---20-plus pages of frozen goods and brand names are listed at sites ranging from  FDA.gov to costco.com/recalls.

The original discussion of this--in early May-- on the QVC Recipe forum can be found by looking back to posts from May 5 on the topic of food recalls.

Not a pleasant topic, and I wish I could remember to return one package of frozen vegetables that my local grocery store called about and asked me to return.  Keep forgetting until I open the freezer and see it sitting there.

Costco also alerted me with a recorded message, but I have yet to think of an item I purchased there in the past year that might be affected.  If anything was affected that I did buy.........well, it has long since been eaten, and no one in our house is dead yet.

[Anita Hug]

I went to Kroger today, and they printed on my receipt a recall warning specific to products I'd purchased in the past Including some meals (like Tai Pei chicken fried rice). Scared me to see that I'd purchased several things on the list and  I've already eaten it...     I've been sick a few times, but there is no way to know whether or not it was the recalled food I ate. 

I suppose this is one benefit to using the store loyalty cards.  I didn't ike stores being able to track what I buy. But now I see one way this can benefit me - they were able to tell me exactly what I bought that was affected.