Safeway Recalls Frozen Food Over Possible Salmonella Contamination

By Bea Karnes:

Open Nature Chile Cheese Enchiladas sold at Safeway stores have been recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)announced.

The supplier for the organic cilantro contained in the product notified Overhill Farms, maker of the enchiladas, that it may have Salmonella contamination based on routine testing conducted.

No illnesses have been reported.

Open Nature Chile Cheese Enchiladas are a frozen prepared dinner packaged in a box with a net weight of 9 oz. and marked with a UPC 0-7989310436-9. The product wassold at stores from Oct 9, 2014, through December 1, 2014. The packages have thelot number 141006 and the “best by” date of AUG-06-15.

The product is sold nationwide at all Safeway-owned stores, including Safeway, Carrs, Genuardi’s, Pak ‘N Save, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb and Vons.

About Salmonella
Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection withSalmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.