It was not immediately clear Friday how much of the recalled products made it to the shelves of grocery stores in southwest and west-central Ohio. The company said its Fresh Frozen products are “distributed to retail outlets, including food service accounts, mass merchandise stores and supermarkets,” in Ohio and 23 other states, according to the FDA’s news release. And the company’s Jamba “At Home” smoothies’ products being recalled are distributed to large-scale retailers and supermarkets east of the Mississippi River, the FDA release said.
By late Friday afternoon, Kroger had posted 19 varieties of 32-ounce (two-pound) packages of frozen vegetables and eight Jamba Juice smoothie products on its web site page that is designed to alert customers of products sold at its grocery stores.
No known illnesses linked to consumption of Fresh Frozen frozen vegetables or Jamba “At Home” smoothies have been reported to date, and no listeria has been detected in the products themselves, but the company issued the recall notice because of the detected presence of the bacteria in the production facility.
Listeria can cause infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems, the FDA said. Healthy people may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but a listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
Inventure Foods urged those who purchased recalled product to destroy the contents and its package and notify the company to obtain a refund. For more information, call (866) 890-1004, email info@inventurefoods.com or visit InventureFoods.com/FrozenRecall.
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