Hundreds of frozen waffle products sold at major grocery and retail stores have been recalled due to the risk of Listeria monocytogenes contamination, food manufacturers say.
TreeHouse Foods is a food processing company based in Oak Brook, Illinois. It reminded me of Friday waffles. “This issue was discovered during routine testing at our manufacturing facility.”
Treehouse said Friday there are no known illnesses associated with the potential outbreak.
The recalled waffles included popular brands such as Best Choice, Target's Good & Gather and Walmart's Great Value, and were distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada, the manufacturer said.
Consumers may have some of the recalled products in their freezers.
Food packages typically have barcodes that indicate when they were manufactured and on which factory line. TreeHouse Foods encourages customers to check their freezers for frozen waffle products and search for the appropriate product code. posted on the website.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Listeria monocytogenes is a serious infection that poses the greatest risk to the elderly, immunocompromised, and pregnant women. It can cause fever, aches, headaches, stiffness, confusion, loss of balance, convulsions and diarrhea, officials said.
Experts say the incubation period for this bacterium is 3 to 70 days.
Treehouse Foods did not respond to a request for further comment.
Full list of recalled waffles:
- Always save homestyle waffles
- Best choice chocolate chip waffles
- Best choice blueberry waffle
- Best choice original waffle
- Best Choice Buttermilk Waffles
- Best Choice Multigrain Waffles
- Bettergoods Blueberry Protein Waffles
- Bettergoods Chocolate Chip Protein Waffles
- Bettergoods Vanilla Protein Buttermilk Waffles
- Best home style waffles for breakfast
- Chocolate chip waffles perfect for breakfast
- Best blueberry waffles for breakfast
- Best breakfast cinnamon waffles
- Best pumpkin waffles for breakfast
- clover valley home style waffles
- clover valley buttermilk waffles
- Essential home style waffles
- Food Lion Blueberry Waffle
- Food Lion Reduced Fat Homestyle Waffles
- Food Lion Reduced Fat Buttermilk Waffles
- Food Hold Blueberry Waffle
- Food Hold Home Style Waffle
- Food Hold Buttermilk Waffle
- food hold chocolate chip waffle
- Food Hold Multigrain Waffle
- giant eagle blueberry waffle
- giant eagle home style waffles
- giant eagle buttermilk waffles
- Good & Gather Buttermilk Vanilla Waffle
- Good & Gather Home Style Waffle
- Good & Gathered Buttermilk Waffles
- Good & Gather Blueberry Waffle
- Great value home style waffles
- Great value buttermilk waffles
- great value blueberry waffle
- Hannaford chocolate chip waffles
- Hannaford Blueberry Waffle
- Hannaford Homestyle Waffle
- Hannaford reduced fat buttermilk waffles
- Hannaford Multigrain Waffles
- harris teeter blueberry waffle
- Harris teeter home style waffle
- harris teeter buttermilk waffles
- harris teeter multigrain waffles
- HEB Higher Harvest Original Protein Waffle
- Kodiak cake vanilla buttermilk waffles
- Kodiak cake dark chocolate waffle
- Kodiak cake chocolate chip waffle
- price chopper chocolate chip waffle
- price chopper blueberry waffle
- Price Chopper Home Style Waffle
- price chopper buttermilk waffles
- Publix home style waffles
- Publix buttermilk waffles
- schnucks chocolate chip waffles
- schnucks blueberry waffle
- schnucks home style waffle
- Schnucks reduced fat buttermilk waffles
- SE Grocers Chocolate Chip Waffles
- SE Grocers Blueberry Waffle
- SE Grocers Reduced Fat Homestyle Waffles
- SE Grocers Buttermilk Waffles
- Simple Truth Vanilla Buttermilk Waffles
- Tops blueberry waffle
- Tops Home Style Waffle
- Tops Buttermilk Waffles
- Tops chocolate chip waffle
The waffle recall comes on the heels of Bruce Pack, a major meat packaging company, recalling approximately 12 million pounds of meat, some of which was sent to New York school cafeterias.
Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture is conducting an internal investigation into the handling of Boar's Head after the famous brand recalled more than 7 million pounds of cold cuts due to listeria contamination.
The disease has killed at least 10 people and hospitalized dozens.
Boar's Head operated a dirty, insect-infested meat factory with dozens of health and safety violations over the years.
