A list of specific products and photos of their labels are now available for a recall of 10 million pounds of meat and poultry products. The products include salads sold under the Dole brand and Walmart’s Marketside brand.
BrucePac of Durant, OK, is recalling 9,986,245 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products because they tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Photos of specific products and labels from others may be found here.
FSIS wants to ensure that consumers are aware that some of the recalled products may have different facility numbers on the labels than initially listed due to further distribution and processing by other facilities.
The problem was discovered after FSIS conducted routine product testing on finished products containing RTE poultry products produced by BrucePac and confirmed that these products were positive for Listeria monocytogenes. Subsequent FSIS investigation identified BrucePac RTE chicken as the source of the Listeria monocytogenes.
Some of the meat and poultry was repackaged into retail products such as salads. The FSIS is concerned that a certain product may be available for use in restaurants, institutions, and other establishments. These other establishments may have used contaminated meat and poultry in RTE products that may be on store shelves or in consumers’ refrigerators or freezers.
The prepared meat and poultry items were produced from June 19, 2024 to October 8, 2024. These products were shipped to other retail packaging and distributor locations nationwide and then distributed to restaurants and institutions.
Some of the recalled products have the establishment number “51205 or P-51205” within or under the USDA inspection mark.
At the time this recall was issued, there have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions resulting from the consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a healthcare provider.
Restaurants, institutions and other establishments are urged not to serve or use these products. These products should be discarded or returned to the place of purchase.
About Listeria infections
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell putrid, but it can still cause serious and sometimes life-threatening infections. Anyone who has eaten a recalled product and developed symptoms of a Listeria infection should seek medical attention and tell his or her doctor about the possible exposure to Listeria.
Also, anyone who has eaten any of the recalled products should monitor themselves for symptoms in the coming weeks, as it can take up to 70 days after exposure to Listeria for symptoms of listeriosis to develop.
Symptoms of a Listeria infection may include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headaches, and neck stiffness. Specific laboratory tests are needed to diagnose Listeria infections, which can mimic other diseases.
Pregnant women, the elderly, young children and people such as cancer patients with weakened immune systems are at particular risk of serious illness, life-threatening infections, other complications and death. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, their infections can lead to preterm labor, infection of the newborn, or even stillbirth.
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