Carrots and baby carrots sold in the United States under brand names including Nature’s Promise, Wegmans, and Trader Joe’s are being recalled over an E. coli outbreak that has left at least one person dead and 15 others hospitalized, reported the Washington Post.
The FDA released a statement that “Grimmway Farms has issued a recall of select organic whole carrots and organic baby carrots that should no longer be in grocery stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers.” FDA said that the company is voluntarily recalling the carrots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that they may be contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli).
The following recalled products were shipped directly to retail distribution centers nationwide in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada:
- Organic whole carrots, which do not have a best-if-used-by date printed on the bag but were available for purchase at retail stores from August 14 through October 23, 2024.
- Organic baby carrots with best-if-used-by-dates ranging from September 11 through November 12, 2024. The recalled carrots should not be available for purchase in stores but may be in consumers' homes.
“One person has died and 39 people have become ill in [the] E. coli outbreak linked to [the] organic carrots… The states with the most outbreaks were Minnesota, New York and Washington,” reported The New York Times.
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