Urgent recall for frozen waffle brand from major retailers amid new listeria risk

Several varieties of frozen waffles - including Walmart's Great Value and Target's Good & Gather - person been recalled owed to a imaginable listeria contamination. 

More than 500 products manufactured by TreeHouse Foods and sold successful the US and Canada are believed to beryllium infected. 

Apart from Walmart and Target, the recalled products are besides sold astatine Dollar General, Aldi's, Food Lion, Tops, Hannaford, H-E-B, PriceChopper, Publix, Schnucks, Southeastern Grocers and Harris Teeter. 

Some of the items include 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. 

In a press release, the manufacturer said consumers should cheque if they person the immoderate of the recalled products successful their freezers - suggesting that either they beryllium thrown retired oregon returned to the spot of acquisition for credit. 

'TreeHouse Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling definite frozen waffle products listed beneath owed to the imaginable to beryllium contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes,' TreeHouse Foods wrote successful a statement.

'This callback is being carried retired with the cognition of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

Consumers and retailers tin place the UPC connected the backmost of the carton, and the Lot Code and Best By Date for these products connected the extremity of the carton.

'Consumers should cheque their freezers for immoderate of the products listed supra and dispose of them oregon instrumentality the recalled merchandise to the spot of acquisition for credit.'

It besides confirmed that nary lawsuit of listeria corruption caused by the frozen waffles has yet been reported. 

'There person been nary confirmed reports of unwellness linked to the recalled products to date. Anyone acrophobic astir an unwellness should interaction a healthcare provider,' the institution suggested.

Eating nutrient with Listeria monocytogenes, the afloat sanction of the bacteria, tin origin a idiosyncratic to make a listeriosis infection, which is highly unsafe for aged adults, those with compromised immune systems and large women on with their newborns.

Symptoms of listeriosis tin include fever, musculus aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, nonaccomplishment of equilibrium and convulsions. All of these symptoms tin travel aft diarrhea oregon different digestion issues.

Pregnant women tin acquisition miscarriages, stillbirths oregon premature transportation of their babe if infected with listeria.

This callback comes a week after BrucePac recalled much than  9.9 cardinal pounds of ready-to-eat nutrient and poultry that was contaminated with Listeria.

The Oklahoma-based institution announced that the products were produced from June 19, 2024, to arsenic precocious arsenic October 8, 2024. They were shipped to different stores and distributors passim the United States.

Product labels and the database of products affected successful the callback volition beryllium made disposable imminently, according to a announcement from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

For now, immoderate products that carnivore constitution numbers '51205 oregon P-51205' wrong oregon nether the USDA inspection people are taxable to the recall.