Urgent recall for cucumbers as dozens fall sick with salmonella in 26 states

Cucumbers person been recalled from large retailers owed to perchance being contaminated with deadly bacteria.

SunFed Produce, LLC, has recalled each sizes of its caller full cucumbers owed to containing the bacteria salmonella, which hospitalizes 26,000 Americans each year.

The recall includes SunFed cucumbers sold successful 26 states and 5 Canadian provinces, according to the FDA. Affected products were sold astatine Walmart, Wegmans and Albertsons stores.

There person been 68 illnesses and 18 hospitalizations, according to the CDC. No deaths person been reported. 

The affected products were sold successful the pursuing states, the FDA said: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

They were besides sold successful Canadian provinces Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. 

The cucumbers were sold to companies that resell oregon redistribute nutrient to nutrient work retailers. Arizona-based SunFed said it is contacting buyers to counsel them of the callback of the cucumbers, which were sold successful bulk cardboard containers with the 'SunFed' statement oregon successful a integrative crate with a sticker identifying the grower successful Mexico: 'Agrotato, S.A. de C.V.' 

SunFed president Craig Slate said successful a statement: 'As soon arsenic we learned of this issue, we instantly acted to support consumers. We are moving intimately with authorities and the implicated ranch to find the imaginable cause.' 

Walmart, Wegmans, and Albertsons each issued callback notices to consumers successful affected states. 

Salmonella is caused by eating foods contaminated with carnal feces. It typically causes diarrhea, fever, and tummy cramps that statesman six hours to six days aft archetypal infection, according to the CDC. 

Most radical retrieve wrong days, though the unwellness is liable for much than 26,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths a year.