If you’ve recently eaten a packaged chicken salad or frozen food from Trader Joe’s, Target, Walmart, or Amazon, you may have listeria.
A nationwide recall has been issued for nearly 10 million pounds of meats, primarily chicken, used in ready-to-eat meals amid concerns about contamination.
The recalled items were revealed today in a 326-page list, which also included packaged salads and frozen meals from Kroger, HEB and 7/11.
No illnesses or deaths. Food-related cases have been reported to date, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Many of the salads mentioned above that contain chicken are being recalled for fear that they may be contaminated with listeria.
Certain batches of the two products mentioned above, from Trader Joe’s, are also being recalled over fears that they may be contaminated with listeria.
The recall was announced last week and affects products from Oklahoma-based BrucePac, which is behind a host of ready-to-eat meals.
The recalled foods have best before dates during this month for salads, or until October of next year, depending on the product.
Customers are advised to check their products’ lot codes to determine if they have been recalled, which are typically printed on the packaging. Full list of recalled products and codes revealed here.
It’s unclear how ready-to-eat meals became contaminated with listeria, but the bacteria may have entered the factory on a product such as an improperly washed chicken breast.
During processing, bacteria may have reached a machine and started to multiply, and this machine spread them to other chicken breasts.
