Tomato recall affecting multiple states elevated to highest risk warning by FDA

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A tomato recall affecting 3 confederate states has been upgraded to a Class I recall, the astir terrible informing by the Food and Drug Administration. The callback of the tomatoes was first announced successful May implicit imaginable salmonella contamination.

Class I is the FDA's highest recall designation for wellness hazards, meaning determination is "a tenable probability" that the merchandise volition origin "serious adverse wellness consequences oregon death."

The tomatoes, from Williams Farms Repack, LLC, were shipped to Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The impacted products see a 3 number package, 10 lb box, 25 lb container arsenic good arsenic a 60 number 2 furniture box, the FDA says.

The FDA is urging consumers who purchased these products not to devour them, adding they tin instrumentality them to the spot of acquisition for a afloat refund oregon discard them.

Williams Farms Repack LLC is recalling tomatoes sold to wholesalers successful South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Food and Drug Administration

Salmonella tin origin "serious and sometimes fatal infections successful young children, frail oregon aged people, and others with weakened immune systems," the FDA wrote successful its archetypal callback announcement.

Healthy radical infected with the bacteria often acquisition a range of symptoms, including: fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms usually commencement six hours to six days aft consuming the bacteria.

Most radical retrieve without attraction aft 4 to 7 days, but younger children, older adults and those with weakened immune systems "may acquisition much terrible illnesses that necessitate aesculapian attraction oregon hospitalization," the CDC says.

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