Green Valley Foods Sprouts Recalled Following Detection of Listeria at Plant
FDA inspectors found Listeria at Green Valley Foods Corp. in Dallas, Texas, after previously finding Salmonella in one of the company's products. Both instances have resulted in food recalls, including a multi-label recall of sprouts. shoots and wheat grass in connection with the Listeria findings.
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The company said in an FDA-published recall notice that the Salmonella was found in a sample of alfalfa-based product taken from a customer on December 12. A plant inspection ensued on December 21 and "several samples'' tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, a potential deadly bacterium that recently caused 31 U.S. deaths in a cantaloupe outbreak. The Listeria testing prompted a recall late on New Year's Eve day covering more than 35,000 cases of a variety of food items, mainly sprouts of different kinds. Click here for the full Green Valley Foods recall published by FDA.
The FDA or CDC has not announced any outbreak of illness associated with food recalls this month by Green Valley. The company, in its own words, put it this way: "Till this present day there has been no related illnesses CONFIRMED because of this recall . This is a cautionary measure taken by Green Valley Food Corp. to assure safe and quality products are being distributed by our facility.''
