Grimmway Farms voluntarily recalled organic whole carrots and select baby carrots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that they may be associated with an outbreak.

Summary

Grimmway Farms has voluntarily recalled organic whole carrots and baby carrots sold at Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, and other retailers due to possible contamination with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), linked to an outbreak identified by the CDC.

Affected products, sold under various labels, include whole carrots (sold from Aug. 14–Oct. 23, 2024) and baby carrots with best-by dates from Sept. 11–Nov. 12, 2024.

Customers are advised to discard them.

STEC can cause severe illness, particularly in young children and the elderly. A prior E. coli outbreak was linked to onions in McDonald’s burgers.

  • astrsk
    16•1 month ago

    As much as it sucks to read about weekly these days, it’s going to suck so much more when these stop getting reported and people just go back to being sick and dying for no reason.

      • @Agent641English
        1•1 month ago

        I feel like there’s a story here that I don’t know about

  • PantsofmagicEnglish
    6•1 month ago

    Not just the retailers in the headline. Check your fridges.

    • CrisEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      EDIT: there’s are 2 complete lists here, one for baby carrots and one for whole: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/grimmway-farms-recalls-organic-whole-and-select-organic-baby-carrots-may-be-consumers-homes-due

      It looks like aldi may be affected, and I just bought baby carrots from aldi 😅

      Thank you very much.

      I think the grimmsway farms website is down or havung issues so I can’t see the full list of brands.

      If anyone can access it, it’d be super helpful if you copy and paste the list of brands affected here

      • @3ntrancedEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        Goddamn it aldi, you’re gonna kill my guinea pigs :(

        • CrisEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          I’m not actually positive if it affects them, but it wouldn’t hurt to take them back to aldi and ask for your money back.

          I think it specifically affects the organic carrots. The carrots I got are labeled grimmway farms, but they aren’t marked organic.

          I need to go look at the list and my package of carrots again more carefully and I’d encourage you to do the same, but I’m probably gonna take mine back just to be safe

          • @3ntrancedEnglish
            2•27 days ago

            Update, they ate all the carrots as normal. No diseases, we good.

            • CrisEnglish
              1•25 days ago

              Nice, I’m glad to hear that!