Hundreds of frozen waffles from Kodiak, Target, Walmart recalled due to potential listeria contamination

Hundreds of frozen waffles person been recalled owed perchance containing the deadly bug listeria. 

Illinois-based TreeHouse Foods Inc said Tuesday that it has expanded an earlier callback to see each frozen toaster waffles, Belgian waffles and pancakes made astatine a mill successful Ontario.

Affected products were sold astatine Albertson's, Aldi, Dollar General, Kroger, Publix, Target, Walmart, and others, the FDA reported. 

Some of the items see Best Choice 12.3oz Chocolate Chip Waffles, Clover Valley 12.3oz Buttermilk Waffles, Tops 12.3oz Blueberry Waffles, Good and Gather 12.3oz Homestyle Waffles, Good and Gather 12.3oz Buttermilk Waffles, Great Value 12.3oz Homestyle Waffles and Great Value 12.3oz Buttermilk Waffles. 

No listeria illnesses person been confirmed.

The update comes days aft TreeHouse officials issued the archetypal recall aft regular investigating recovered listeria astatine the factory. 

As of past week, 500 waffles had been recalled.  

The institution said Tuesday that accumulation astatine the mill has been halted and that it volition restart aft taking steps that see 'deep cleaning, sanitation, hygienic restoration' and different procedures.  

No different plants person been affected, officials said. 

Listeria, besides called Listeriosis, is simply a superior corruption caused by eating nutrient contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. 

It tin beryllium recovered successful moist environments, soil, water, decaying vegetation and animals, and tin past refrigeration and different nutrient preservation measures. 

Many foods tin harbor the bug, but it is usually recovered successful unpasteurized milk, brushed cheeses and ready-to-eat foods, specified arsenic prepacked sandwiches. Cooked shellfish, cured meats and food including sushi and pre-cut effect are besides a risk.

Most radical who devour nutrient contaminated with Listeria volition not autumn earnestly ill. But successful immoderate cases, it tin origin disorder and seizures, miscarriage successful large women, and adjacent death.

This tin hap erstwhile the corruption spreads beyond the gut and tin impact the cardinal tense system, which tin pb to numbness and seizures. 

The CDC estimates that 1,600 Americans go infected with listeria each year, and astir 260 die. 

Kodiak, 1 of the affected products, besides recalled its Power Waffles Buttermilk & Vanilla 'due to the imaginable beingness of brushed integrative film' past month.