Cucumbers sold at Walmart have been recalled in three states due to possible listeria contamination, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
Wiers Farm, based in Willard, Ohio, about 75 miles southwest of Cleveland, issued the recall on Friday.
The cucumbers were sold in select Walmart stores in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, the FDA said. The recall includes whole cucumbers with a pack date of June 5 and packaged salad cucumbers with pack dates of June 5 and 6.
According to the FDA, the product was grown and harvested out of state and sold by Wiers Farm. The company is cooperating with regulators on the recall.
Officials with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development discovered the possible contamination through routine sampling.
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Listeria monocytogenes is a type of bacteria that can cause fever, muscle aches and gastrointestinal problems. Symptoms can last from a few days to several weeks, the FDA said.
So far, there have been no consumer complaints or illnesses related to the cucumbers, but customers who have purchased them should throw them away, the FDA said.
“The product in question has passed its expiration date and may have already been withdrawn from sale. However, if consumers have any doubts about a product, do not consume it and instead throw it away,” the agency wrote on its website.
Customers with questions may contact Wiers Farm at (419) 933-2161 or [email protected].
Last cucumber recall of 2024
Wiers Farm’s cucumber recall followed a salmonella outbreak in the fruit.
A multi-state investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA has identified Florida-based Bedner Growers, Inc. as the likely source of an outbreak caused by cucumbers contaminated with salmonella.
Bedner Growers supplies Fresh Start Produce Sales, Inc. of Delray, Florida. The company issued a recall of Florida-grown cucumbers shipped to 14 states on May 31 after some of them tested positive for salmonella.
The CDC reported on July 2 that 449 illnesses and 125 hospitalizations had been reported in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and no deaths had occurred in connection with the Salmonella Braenderup strain of pathogen.
The CDC and FDA investigated whether additional strains of Salmonella had been discovered at Bedner Growers that had caused illness.
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