More than a DOZEN states now affected by California E.coli scare as FDA recalls 155,000 items including Starbucks holiday turkey sandwich and Walmart fruit salad
California farm recalled celery last week amid contamination fears
At first it just affected chicken salad in Costco on the West Coast
But now the FDA has recalled 155,000 items as far as Georgia and Hawaii
By MIA DE GRAAF
DAILYMAIL.COM
2 December 2015
More than 12 states are now involved in the FDA’s major supermarket recall amid fears of an E.coli breakout.
The chicken salad sold in California’s Costco stores was pulled from shelves last week after a farm in Tracy reported fears the celery could be contaminated.
Now, federal health officials have cast the net even wider – to include at least 155,000 items sold at stores as far flung as Georgia and Hawaii.
Target, 7-Eleven, Albertsons, Safeway, Walmart and Sams Club are all implicated in the recall of foods including vegetable trays, Thai-style salads, packaged dinners and wraps.
And Starbucks has been forced to pull 45,000 turkey holiday sandwiches from stores in Oregon, Nevada and California.
The FDA has published a full list of the specific items recalled on their website.
Chipotle also suffered an E.coli scare in November.
Costco says it uses one supplier for those vegetables in the chicken salad sold in all its U.S. stores.
A message left with Taylor Farms was not immediately returned.
Costco, based in Issaquah, Washington, pulled the chicken salad off store shelves nationwide, posted signs in its stores and provided detailed purchase logs to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help it track who bought the product and where the salad ingredients came from.
Six people got sick in Montana, five in Utah, four in Colorado, and one each in California, Missouri, Virginia and Washington state.
The illness reports began on Oct. 6 and involved people from age 5 to 84, the CDC said.
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