ByCATHY BUSSEWITZ BUSINESS WRITER Associated Press
November 17, 2024, 2: 59 PM
NEW YORK — An breakout of E. coli has contaminated lots of individuals who consumed bagged natural carrots, and one individual passedaway from the infection.
Altogether, 39 individuals were contaminated and 15 were hospitalized in 18 states after consuming natural entire and child carrots offered by Grimmway Farms, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated Sunday.
Grimmway Farms, based in Bakersfiled, California, has remembered the carrots, which consistedof whole and infant natural carrots offered in bags under several brandname names consistingof 365, Cal-Organic, Nature’s Promise, O-Organics, Trader Joe’s and Wegmans, amongst others.
The carrots are no longer in shops, however the CDC is caution customers to not consume remembered bag carrots and to check their fridges or freezers and toss away any carrots that fit the description. Most of the contaminated individuals live in New York, Minnesota and Washington, followed by California and Oregon, although infections haveactually been reported in states throughout the nation, according to the CDC.
There haveactually been anumberof E. coli breakouts in current months. In October, more than 100 McDonald’s consumers