Trader Joe's Recalls Butternut Squash, Zucchini Over Listeria Contamination

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DETROIT (WWJ) - It's time to check your fridge if you shop at Trader Joe's.

Maine-based Growers Express has issued a recall for select fresh vegetable products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The fresh vegetable products include packaged varieties of butternut squash, cauliflower, zucchini and a butternut squashed based veggie bowl sold under several brand names, including Green Giant Fresh, Growers Express, Signature Farms and Trader Joe’s.

The only products sold in Michigan included in the recall are:

  • Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Spirals 10.5 oz., UPC: 623391, Lot Code: 190614-403565, Best By: 6/28/2019
  • Trader Joe's Zucchini Spirals 10.5 oz., UPC: 634908, Lot Code: 190617-403814, Best By: 6/27/2019

Consumers who purchased any of the recalled products are urged not to consume them and to throw the products away. For more information, contact the company at 800-292-3939.

Listeria 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 short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headaches, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

No illnesses associated with the products have been reported to date.