The latest round of cucumber salmonella recalls involves Walmart, Kroger and Costco
The good news in the salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers: as of Thursday’s update from the CDC, the number of illnesses (68) and hospitalizations (19) remained the same as the update from the week before.
The bad news: there’s more recalls and they involve the nation’s top three grocery sellers, as listed by both foodindustry.com and Numerator.com.
Here’s what you need to know about the bad news.
READ MORE: An update on the recalls and illnesses in the salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers
What other products have been recalled?
All products should be returned to the store for a full refund or thrown in the garbage so deeply that nosy pets can’t get to them. Also, clean and sanitize all surfaces the food touched.
Walmart’s Sam’s Club: Fresh Creative Foods, a supplier to Walmart’s version of a warehouse club, recalled its Beef & Lamb Gyro Sandwich Express Meal Kits with UPC code No. 0-13454-38313-1 and use by dates from 12/24/2024 to 1/6/2025. The tzatziki sauce has cucumbers from Fresno, California’s Baloian Farms, which has recalled cucumbers on salmonella concerns.
Walmart has posted a 14-page PDF listing Sam’s Club stores involved.
Questions about this recall can be answered by Vista, Califorinia’s Fresh Creative at 888-223-2127, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Eastern time.
READ MORE: Cucumbers recalled in at least 26 states and Canada after links to salmonella ailments
Kroger and King Soopers: Farmers Branch, Texas’ Supreme Service Solutions recalled 14 salads, vegetable bowls and packs of cucumber slices to Kroger and Kroger-owned King Soopers stores in Texas and Colorado. All of the ready-to-eat products, the full list of which is on the FDA-posted recall notice, are past their best by date, but might be in customers’ freezers.
Yummi Sushi, also out of Farmers Branch, yanked 89 products from Kroger stores in Texas. A four-page PDF lists all the Yummi Sushi products recalled. All have a best by date of Nov. 30.
SunFed Produce supplied the cucumbers in these products, so questions about both of these recalls are being directed to SunFed, 888-542-5849, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Central time.
Costco: Dairyland Produce, which does business as Hardie’s Fresh Foods, recalled Cucumber Select bags of six cucumbers, lot Nos. X2377074, X2379602, X2381000, X2381080, X2383400, X2384557, and X2384587 from Costco warehouses in Houston and Dallas.
Direct questions to Dairyland Produce at 281-697-7067, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Central time.
Ralphs and Smiths: Riverside, California’s F&S Fresh Foods recalled Mediterranean Inspired Party Trays from two Kroger-owned chains, Ralphs in California and Smith’s in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. The trays have Grecian Delight tzatziki sauce with made with cucumbers from SunFed Produce, which previously recalled cucumbers in this outbreak.
The trays came in 22-ounce plastic clamshells with codes that have “GH” followed by 325 through 339 and sell by dates from 11/27/24 to 12/11/24.
Take any questions to F&S at 888-449-9386, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Pacific time.
Information on salmonella
Salmonella outbreak case counts often are much higher than the illnesses officially counted by the CDC because most illnesses last four to seven days of vomiting, diarrhea and stomachaches then clear up without need of a medical professional. Salmonella hits about 1.35 million people in the United States each year, hospitalizing around 26,400 people, usually with bloody diarrhea. The worst effects, including the rare death, tend to be felt by adults over 65 and children under 5.
