A Food Safety Recall Alert Has Been Issued:
Carol’s Cuts LLC, Kansas food processor, is recalling 594 pounds of fresh cut cantaloupe packaged in 5-pound trays as chunks and as an ingredient in 8-ounce mixed fruit medley because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriage and stillbirths among pregnant women.
For more information on the food safety recall, read the Department of Human Health and Services Recall Alert: Carol’s Cuts recalls fresh cut cantaloupe and cut mixed fruit containing cantaloupe because of possible health risk Distributed in KS, Mo, and NE.
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