The Quaker Oats Firm added extra merchandise this week to a recall that began final month over attainable salmonella contamination, elevating the overall variety of merchandise to greater than 60.
Quaker Oats, which is owned by PepsiCo, initially recalled 43 merchandise, together with granola bars, cereals and numerous snack meals. On Thursday, the corporate added 24 merchandise to the record.
The newly recalled gadgets embrace Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, Gatorade protein bars, Cap’n Crunch bars, Quaker Merely Granola Cereals, Gamesa Marias Cereal and different cereals.
“So far, Quaker has obtained no confirmed stories of sickness associated to the merchandise lined by this recall,” the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration mentioned in December. It’s unclear if any sicknesses have been reported since then.
It was not instantly clear how the potential contamination occurred or how or when it first got here to the eye of federal regulators or the corporate. Quaker Oats didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Saturday.
On its website, the corporate listed the recalled merchandise and offered an choice to request reimbursement.
Clients ought to test their pantries for any of the merchandise and eliminate them, the F.D.A. mentioned.
Salmonella is an organism that may trigger critical and generally deadly infections in younger kids, frail or older adults, and folks with weakened immune programs.
Frequent signs of salmonella embrace fever, nausea, vomiting, belly ache and diarrhea, which can be bloody. In uncommon circumstances, salmonella can get into the bloodstream and lead to extra extreme sicknesses, akin to contaminated arteries, based on the F.D.A.
People who’re uncovered normally begin to really feel sick six hours to 6 days later. Most infections are gentle and final between 4 and 7 days.
Different latest salmonella-related recollects have been linked to quite a lot of meals, akin to vegetables, fruits and meats. A minimum of two folks died in a salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes that the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention introduced in November.
Salmonella micro organism trigger about 1.35 million infections, 26,500 hospitalizations and 420 deaths in the USA yearly, based on the C.D.C.
