Whole Foods organic carrots and celery recalled amid E. coli outbreak

Organic carrots and celery sold astatine Whole Foods Market successful 5 states are being recalled amid a deadly E. coli outbreak that has stricken 39 radical successful 18 states.

The recall, posted Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration, involves 15-ounce containers of Whole Foods Market-branded integrated carrot sticks and integrated carrots & celery sticks sold astatine Whole Foods Market stores successful Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho and Nevada, according to the announcement by  Sacramento, California-based F&S Fresh Foods.

F&S initiated the callback aft being notified by a section supplier, Grimmway Farms, of imaginable contamination with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli. The announcement comes lone days aft a nationwide recall of aggregate brands of full and babe integrated carrots. 

Label of recalled product. U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Federal officials are investigating the E. coli outbreak, which has killed 1 idiosyncratic and led to astatine slightest 15 radical being hospitalized.

The F&S callback involves carrots and celery sold successful integrative clamshells with the letters "GH" followed by 3 digits ranging from 236 to 284, and best-if-sold-by dates ranging from Sept. 1, 2024, to Oct. 19, 2024. While nary longer sold successful stores, the nutrient whitethorn inactive reside successful people's refrigerators oregon freezers.

The E. coli bacteria tin origin serious, sometimes fatal infections successful the young, aged and those with weakened immune systems. 

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