Current:Home > ContactStrawberry products sold at Costco, Trader Joe's, recalled after hepatitis A outbreak -Keystone Capital Education
Strawberry products sold at Costco, Trader Joe's, recalled after hepatitis A outbreak
View
Date:2025-04-13 15:35:57
Frozen organic strawberries sold at stores across the U.S., including Costco and Aldi, as well as a strawberry-containing frozen tropical fruit blend sold at Trader Joe's, have been recalled over the products' potential link to an outbreak of hepatitis A infections in Washington state.
The Food and Drug Administration is advising people not to consume certain frozen strawberry brands after five people who had eaten frozen strawberries last year were later sickened. Two people were hospitalized, according to the federal agency.
An FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigation discovered that all five people infected had bought the same brand of frozen organic strawberries before becoming ill. Those berries, which came from a common supplier that imported them from some farms in Baja California, Mexico, "are the likely source of this outbreak," the CDC said.
Two companies have since issued voluntary recalls in response to the investigation. California Splendor of San Diego recalled specific lots of four-pound bags of Kirkland Signature Frozen Organic Whole Strawberries that were sold at Costco stores in Los Angeles, Hawaii and two San Diego business centers.
Scenic Fruit Company, based in Gresham, Ore., recalled frozen organic strawberries sold in several states — at Costco, Aldi, KeHE, Vital Choice Seafood and PCC Community Markets. The company also recalled a frozen organic tropical fruit blend, that includes strawberries, sold at Trader Joe's locations nationwide.
The recall applies to the frozen products sold under the following brand names: Simply Nature, Vital Choice, Kirkland Signature, Made With, PCC Community Markets and Trader Joe's.
The FDA urges consumers to destroy these products or return it to their local store for a refund "out of an abundance of caution."
Hepatitis A is a contagious liver infection, according to the CDC, often spread via close contact with an infected person or through eating contaminated food or drink. Symptoms, which could take as many as seven weeks to show up, can include vomiting, stomach pain, dark urine or pale stool, diarrhea and fatigue.
veryGood! (999)
Related
- Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
- UN envoy urges donor support for battered Syria facing an economic crisis
- Ravens' J.K. Dobbins updates: RB confirmed to have Achilles injury
- 'Great gesture' or 'these really are awful?' Readers are divided over the new Walmart cart
- Friday the 13th luck? 13 past Mega Millions jackpot wins in December. See top 10 lottery prizes
- Maldives presidential runoff is set for Sept. 30 with pro-China opposition in a surprise lead
- Operation to extract American researcher from one of the world’s deepest caves advances to 700m
- Hawaii volcano Kilauea erupts after nearly two months of quiet
- New Mexico governor seeks funding to recycle fracking water, expand preschool, treat mental health
- Pearl Jam postpones Indiana concert 'due to illness': 'We wish there was another way around it'
Ranking
- Krispy Kreme offers a free dozen Grinch green doughnuts: When to get the deal
- Spanish soccer president Luis Rubiales resigns after nonconsensual kiss at Women’s World Cup final
- Coco Gauff's maturity, slow-and-steady climb pays off with first Grand Slam title
- Sunday Night Football highlights: Cowboys rout Giants in NFC East showdown
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Kim Jong Un departs Pyongyang en route to Russia, South Korean official says
- Michael Irvin returns to NFL Network after reportedly settling Marriott lawsuit
- GA grand jury recommended charges against 3 senators, NY mayor's migrant comments: 5 Things podcast
Recommendation
Bill Belichick's salary at North Carolina: School releases football coach's contract details
AP Top 25 Takeaways: Texas is ready for the SEC, but the SEC doesn’t look so tough right now
End may be in sight for Phoenix’s historic heat wave of 110-degree plus weather
A security guard was shot and wounded breaking up a fight outside a NY high school football game
All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
Coco Gauff, Deion Sanders and the powerful impact of doubt on Black coaches and athletes
India forges compromise among divided world powers at the G20 summit in a diplomatic win for Modi
Delta Air Lines employees work up a sweat at boot camp, learning how to deice planes