Quote:Oregon-based Willamette Valley Fruit Co. issued a recall for packages of frozen fruit sold at Walmart, Costco and HEB stores around the nation – the latest company to do so amid an outbreak of hepatitis A infections. 


The select packages Great Value and Radar Farms frozen fruit contain strawberries that were grown in Mexico and have the potential to be contained with hepatitis A, according to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

The notice came just after California-based Wawona Frozen Foods issued a recall for year-old bags of frozen fruit that were shipped to Costco stores. 

The FDA has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as with other state public health and regulatory officials, to investigate the multi-state outbreak of infections that started in November 2022 and have been linked to frozen organic strawberries imported from certain farms in Baja California, Mexico. 


To date, nine people have fallen ill in three states, including three people who have been hospitalized. 

The hepatitis A virus strain in this outbreak is genetically identical to the strain that caused the hepatitis A outbreak in 2022 that left over a dozen people hospitalized, according to the CDC.

(06-17-2023, 05:19 PM)Infolurker Wrote: Just a public service announcement (more food contamination): 

More strawberries sold at Walmart, Costco, HEB recalled over possible hepatitis A contamination!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/more-strawberries-sold-walmart-costco-heb-recalled-possible-hepatitis-a-contamination

Quote:Oregon-based Willamette Valley Fruit Co. issued a recall for packages of frozen fruit sold at Walmart, Costco and HEB stores around the nation – the latest company to do so amid an outbreak of hepatitis A infections. 


The select packages Great Value and Radar Farms frozen fruit contain strawberries that were grown in Mexico and have the potential to be contained with hepatitis A, according to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

The notice came just after California-based Wawona Frozen Foods issued a recall for year-old bags of frozen fruit that were shipped to Costco stores. 

The FDA has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as with other state public health and regulatory officials, to investigate the multi-state outbreak of infections that started in November 2022 and have been linked to frozen organic strawberries imported from certain farms in Baja California, Mexico. 


To date, nine people have fallen ill in three states, including three people who have been hospitalized. 

The hepatitis A virus strain in this outbreak is genetically identical to the strain that caused the hepatitis A outbreak in 2022 that left over a dozen people hospitalized, according to the CDC.