Overview

• FSIS expanded its public health alert to include Walmart’s Marketside Linguine with Beef Meatballs & Marinara and Trader Joe’s Cajun-Style Blackened Chicken Breast Fettuccine Alfredo with specified best-by dates.
• CDC tracking lists 20 illnesses in 15 states with 19 hospitalizations and four deaths, including one fatality reported in Utah.
• Manufacturer FreshRealm says it detected Listeria in a Walmart linguine sample and cites a third-party pasta supplier as the likely source, with sequencing underway to assess links to June cases.
• Albertsons issued a voluntary recall of several store-made deli pasta items after identifying recalled bowtie pasta from Nate’s Fine Foods in those products supplied by Fresh Creative Foods.
• Health agencies urge consumers to discard or return affected meals, sanitize refrigerators and surfaces that may have touched them, and monitor for symptoms given Listeria’s long incubation period.