Popular Grocery Store Recalls Multiple Items Over Salmonella Concerns
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More cheese products have been added to a recall due to possible salmonella contamination.
Two types of Hy-Vee cream cheese could possibly be tainted, the grocery store chain said. Its bulk-packaged Cookies & Cream snack mix was also affected. The company operates 280 stores in the Midwest, so if you shop with them you will want to check your products!
What We Know
Hy-Vee said it decided to do the recall after receiving word of the possible contamination from the impacted products’ third-party manufacturers, according to an announcement published by the FDA.
The two cream cheese spreads included 8-ounce Hy-Vee whipped cream cheese spread with August 7 and Aug. 14 use-by dates and 12-ounce Hy-Vee cream cheese spread with a September 1 use-by date, the supermarket chain said.
Four-ounce packages of Hy-Vee to-go Cookies & Cream mix and 16-ounce packages of Hy-Vee Cookies & Cream Mix with certain use-by dates were recalled, too, according to the announcement.
“These two recalls are being made after two suppliers issued larger recalls for their products around the country,” a spokesperson for Hy-Vee told FOX Business. “The candy item is related to the public Palmer Candy recall…”
The cream cheese spreads and snack mix have not caused any illnesses or adverse reactions. The company issued the recall “out of an abundance of caution.”
Hy-Vee urged consumers who have the products to toss them in the trash or return them to the store for a refund.
Hy-Vee, Hy-Vee Drugstore, Dollar Fresh Market, and Hy-Vee Fast and Fresh convenience store locations in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin received the products prior to the recall, the FDA announcement said.
The company “has voluntarily removed all affected items listed above from its shelves.”
Other Recalls
The Palmer Candy recall, which applied to confectionary products sold by various retailers, occurred after that company “was notified by its liquid coating supplier that there was a potential for contamination with salmonella from an ingredient that was potentially contaminated from one of their suppliers,” according to the FDA.
The cream cheese may be related to a larger recall that was issued this week from Schnuck stores, which recalled three cheese spreads.
Salmonella can cause stomach issues and fever in healthy people and “serious and sometimes fatal infections” in young children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems, according to the FDA.
Right now, several products, including ice cream, are being recalled for salmonella concerns.
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