food recalls

Food recalls fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic but are on an uptick now. Here's how the government is tracing outbreaks — and some tips on handling food safely to minimize the risk of illness.

The recalled products include salads, wraps, pasta bowls, burritos, enchiladas and many other ready-made frozen and family meals, and come from brands including Fresh Express, Rao’s, Boston Market, Atkins, Dole, ReadyMeals, Taylor Farms, Home Chef and Signature Select. The stores that carry them include Aldi, Amazon Fresh, Giant Eagle, H-E-B, Kroger, Meijer, Publix, Target, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Wegmans and 7-Eleven.

Modesto, California-based Rizo-López Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling more than 60 dairy products because they may be contaminated with Listeria linked to dozens of illnesses and two deaths.

HOUSTON — Blue Bell Creameries believes the listeria found at its Oklahoma facility is likely linked to a non-sanitary room, though the company has not…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Blue Bell Creameries says it has entered a voluntary agreement with the Alabama Department of Public Health that includes requiring the…

The state health department has stepped in with a set of safety milestones that Blue Bell Creameries must accomplish before the company may reintroduce…

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials say they were never told of repeated findings of listeria at a Blue Bell Creameries facility before an outbreak…

WASHINGTON — Blue Bell ice cream had evidence of listeria bacteria in its Oklahoma manufacturing plant as far back as March 2013, a government…

WASHINGTON — Major recalls from two well-known ice cream companies due to the discovery of listeria bacteria raise questions about how the pathogen could…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called it "a complex and ongoing multistate outbreak of listeriosis occurring over an extended period of several years."