Listeria Recall: Chicken Salad

Below is the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) news release regarding the recall of Trader Joe's pasta salad with chicken due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a life-threatening foodborne pathogen. Pritzker | Olsen, P.A. , a leading Listeria litigation law firm, is reprinting the news release here as a public service. The firm has recovered millions for victims of Listeria poisoning (listeriosis) and other foodborne illnesses, including a recent settlement for $6,425,000. To contact a Listeria lawyer at Pritzker | Olsen, P.A. for a free consultation, call toll-free at 1-888-377-8900 or fill out the firm’s online-consultation form.

The incubation period for Listeria can be anywhere from 11-70 days. If you have eaten any recalled Trader Joe's pasta salad with chicken, you should watch for Listeria symptoms, including fever, muscle aches, diarrhea, headache, loss of balance and confusion. If you are pregnant and ate the recalled head cheese, your unborn baby is at risk. Read about Listeria and pregnancy.

FSIS Recall Announcement: Trader Joe's Pasta Salad with Chicken Recalled due to Possible Listeria Contamination

January 25, 2007 - Garden Leaf Foods, a Gardena, Calif., firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 1,591 pounds of pasta salad with chicken that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.

The following product is subject to recall:

12-ounce plastic containers of "TRADER JOE'S, Serves 2, Spicy THAI STYLE PASTA SALAD, with chicken breast." Each label bears the establishment number "P-21252" inside the USDA mark of inspection. Each package bears a "Sell-by" date of "1-25-07."

The products were produced on Jan. 19, 2007 and distributed to retail establishments in Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico.

The problem was discovered through routine FSIS microbiological testing. FSIS has received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of this product.

Consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Healthy people rarely contract listeriosis. However, listeriosis can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. Listeriosis can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as serious and sometimes fatal infections in those with weakened immune systems, such as infants, the elderly and persons with HIV infection or undergoing chemotherapy.

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