Duda Farm Fresh Foods, Inc. is voluntarily issuing a precautionary advisory for a single production lot of washed and ready-to-eat 4 in/1.6 oz Marketside Celery Sticks with a "Best if Used By" date of 03/23/2025.
This product is past its "Best if Used By" date and is no longer in stores, but consumers may have frozen the item for later use.
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This advisory is being issued due to the possibility of contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The potential contamination was discovered during random sampling by the Georgia Department of Agriculture from a Georgia store location, where one of multiple samples yielded a positive test result.
Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, Listeria monocytogenes infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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To date, no illnesses have been reported in connection with this product.
The specific products involved are 4-count, 4 in/1.6 oz bundle packs of Marketside Celery Sticks sold at Walmart stores, identified by UPC code 6 81131 16151 0 on the back of the bag, with a "Best if Used By" date of 03/23/2025 and a Lot Code: P047650 on the front of the bag. All potentially affected products are past their expiration date and no longer for sale.
Consumers who have this product in their possession, including in their freezer, should not consume it and should discard the product.
This voluntary advisory does not apply to any other Marketside or Duda Farm Fresh Foods, Inc. products.
For more information:
Cathleen Conley
Duda Farm
Email: Corpcomm@duda.com
www.fda.gov