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A significant onion recall has been issued due to a Salmonella outbreak that has reached 43 U.S. states and Canada and infected 640 people, 85 of which have been hospitalized.
The Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that Progressive Produce LLC and various grocery stores, including Trader Joe's and Ralph's, have issued a recall of red, white, yellow, and sweet onions from Thomson International Inc. of Bakersfield, California, which has been determined as the likely source of the outbreak.
As of Aug. 6, Utah has the most Salmonella cases with 90, followed by Oregon (85), California (76), Montana (52), and Illinois (41), according to the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention.
Infections have also been reported in Alaska (6), Alabama (1), Arizona (14), Colorado (14), Connecticut (2), Delaware (1), Florida (3), Georgia (1), Idaho (26), Indiana (2), Iowa (20), Kansas (2), Kentucky (1), Maine (4), Maryland (1), Massachusetts (2), Michigan (36), Minnesota (14), Mississippi (2), Missouri (6), Nebraska (10), Nevada (8), New Hampshire (1), New Jersey (2), New Mexico (1), New York (1), North Carolina (5), North Dakota (8), Ohio (8), Pennsylvania (9), South Carolina (1), South Dakota (17), Tennessee (5), Virginia (8), Washington (25), West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (7) and Wyoming (16).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/theres-a-massive-onion-recall-right-now-after-salmonella-outbreak-in-43-states/ar-BB17PL4b?li=BBnb7Kz
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)K&R!
Throck
(2,520 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Celerity
(43,357 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)..i got them either at Fred Meyers or Safeway. Hubby said he checked something on the bag and nothing matched. Also there was a warning posted in the stores so I would assume they wouldn't be stocking the affected ones. Maybe I will stick with green onions for a bit.
musette_sf
(10,201 posts)Got red ones a few weeks ago since yellows were out of stock. Wed eaten some of them and had no issues before we heard about the national onion problem, so were sure we are okay and we will finish the bag.
I ordered yellow onions last week - they too are organic and we again had no issues.
So, if you can get organic locally grown, thats the way to go.
SWBTATTReg
(22,124 posts)I went a couple of days ago, there were available (I use for salads). The grocery store I shop at is pretty good at pulling possibly contaminated produce off the shelves very rapidly, so I trust the red onion I brought the other day. Thank god that they (the grocery store) are on top of things, how does one keep up w/ all of the notices of food such and such here, such and such there, etc.?
Point being, red onions (safe) are available in STLMO Aug. 9-10, 2020 time frame. Of course the local coop would be the safest venue to buy red onions, but I don't have a reliable coop/farmer's market located near me.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)Damn communist pedophile conspiracy to make us eat leeks!
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)2naSalit
(86,609 posts)about twenty yellow and twenty white onions yet to pull, I have a couple sweet onions that I bought a couple weeks ago... Vadalias which come from Washington. I won't need to buy any for a while, and I make almost everything with onions.
Thanks for the warning!