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Listeria risk prompts Wegmans recall

Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is recalling approximately 12,540 packages of Wegmans Organic Food You Feel Good About Just Picked frozen spinach due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The product was sold in the frozen food department of the company’s 85 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts between Jan. 27 and March 21.

No illnesses associated with this recall have been reported to date, but Wegmans will place automated phone calls to customers who purchased the product using their Shoppers Club card.

Only packages (UPC 77890-32932) with the following codes are affected: Best used by Jan. 26, 2017 50265; and Best used by Feb. 2, 2017 50335.

This product is supplied to Wegmans by Twin City Foods Inc., which is based in Stanwood, WA.

Listeria is a bacterium that can contaminate foods and cause a mild non-invasive illness or a severe, sometimes life-threatening, illness. Persons who have the greatest risk of experiencing listeriosis after consuming foods contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes are fetuses and neonates who are infected after the mother is exposed to it during pregnancy, the elderly, and persons with weakened immune systems. Customers who have experienced these symptoms and are concerned should contact their physician.

 

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