Deadly listeria outbreak linked to chicken alfredo fettucine sold at Kroger and Walmart
A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to newly recalled heat-and-eat chicken fettucine alfredo products sold at Kroger and Walmart stores, federal health officials said late Tuesday.
The outbreak, which includes at least 17 people in 13 states, began last July, officials said. At least 16 people have been hospitalized.
FreshRealm, a large food producer with sites in California, Georgia and Indiana, is recalling products made before June 17. The recall includes these products, which were sold in the refrigerated sections of retail stores:
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Thank goodness we defunded food quality safety checks
To be fair, we've been defunding them for decades. Still the fault of Republicans
... Is poisonous food the only way that women will be able to get abortions under Trump?
They'll prosecute those women as well.
Well, obviously.
I bet they both lose a Michelin Star for this.
Sounds like a good time to buy a pasta maker attachment for my KitchenAid.
The flour is usually a high food safety risk than the egg in raw cookie dough.
That's why I bake my flour before I use it.
Why not just buy it all premade from Walmart. What's the worst that could happen, listeria or something?
I have a friend who buys his own wheat berries and grinds it into flour for bread. I don't know how much more work it would be to make pasta flour.
Wheat berries?
Strangely enough, that's the correct name for it. He said that if you buy wheat as wheat berries, it has an extremely long shelf life, but I have not independently verified that.
Huh...sure enough. I assumed it was just whole grain wheat. Alright, carry on.
Meh, that's what cooking is for.
Now, let's not devolve into mass lysteria.
Began last July?!
I don’t really understand how “outbreak strains” are identified or tracked, but this if what the linked FDA paper in the article says:
Wow. Thank you much for pasting that over fartsy!
Didn't the US defund any and all checks that would have prevented this?
listerias is a problem if your immunocompromised, or pregnant, usually its milder in healthy people. the reason why its so virulent amongs susceptible, because it can zoom around infected cells, using thier cytoskeleton, this allows it to spread from cell to cell very quickly, while most other infections require the cells bursting, or the bacteria exiting the cell.
Store bought is NOT fine.
Alfredo Fettuccine in the title has me unreasonably flustered