Freshway Foods Voluntarily Recalls Out-of-Date Sliced Apples Because of Possible Health Risk
summary：Freshway Foods is voluntarily recalling 6,671 pounds of sliced apples that were packaged on November 12 using the same packaging machine, which may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes....
Freshway Foods is voluntarily recalling 6,671 pounds of sliced apples that were packaged on November 12 using the same packaging machine, which may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. A table of recalled consumer pack products, their respective use-by-dates and the states to which the company shipped them is provided below. No illnesses have been linked to this recall.Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
December 8, 2012
Freshway Foods Voluntary Recall of Sliced Apples
| UPC Number | Use by Date | Product Description | Individual Consumer Package Size | States to which FreshwayFoods shipped the product |
| not applicable | 11/30/2012 | RED APPLE SLICE2.4 OZ. SONICS | 2.4 OZ | Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin |
| 95829 20000 | 12/03/2012 and 12/6/2012 | RED APPLE SLICE14 OZ. | 14 OZ | Florida, Georgia, |
| MOTTS INNERLOCK BAG | North Carolina | |||
| 95829 20042 | 12/03/2012 | GREEN APPLE SLICE 14 OZ. | 14 OZ | North Carolina |
| MOTTS INNERLOCK BAG |