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Braga Fresh is advising consumers that listeria may be present in a single 12-ounce bag of Marketside broccoli florets.
In one preliminary advisory released Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration, the company said the potentially contaminated quantity of washed, ready-to-eat bags of broccoli is “past the best if used by date and no longer in stores, but consumers may have frozen the item for later use”.
“Consumers who have this product in their freezers should not consume and discard the product,” Braga Fresh advised.
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The bags of broccoli have the lot code “BFFG327A6” on the front and the UPC code “6 81131 32884 5” on the back, according to the company. Their best date was December 10.
Braga said sales of broccoli florets occurred at Walmart stores in 20 states. (Food and Drug Administration)
Sales of bags potentially contaminated with listeria occurred at “select” Walmart stores.
The bacteria “can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems” and miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women, the FDA advisory said.
Fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea are common symptoms that healthy people may experience if they contract a listeriosis infection.
However, broccoli has not made anyone sick to date, Braga Fresh said.
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The company said the risk of contamination “was discovered during random sampling by Texas Health & Human Services from a store location in Texas, where one of the multiple samples tested positive” for listeria monocytogenes.
The Walmart locations that received the potentially affected product are located in Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
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The retailer published a list of the exact stores on its website.
An employee collects shopping carts at Walmart on July 22, 2020, in Burbank, California. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
Braga Fresh said its advisory “does not apply to any other products manufactured by Marketside or Braga Fresh”.
The company has been around for decades. It produces a variety of vegetable and salad kits, according to its website.
