FDA shares update on recalled organic carrots

Earlier this week the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Grimmway Farms initiated a voluntary recall of organic whole and baby carrots due to a possible contamination with possible contamination with E. coli O121:H9.

To date, the outbreak has sickened 39 people and killed one person in 18 states.

In an update, the FDA said recalled products were shipped to retail distribution centers nationwide and Puerto Rico.

The agency also added two more products to its recall list as companies used or repackaged recalled carrots that Grimmway Farms may have supplied. F&S Fresh Foods, Sacramento, Calif., recalled its Whole Foods Market 15-ounce Organic Carrot Sticks and Whole Foods Market 15-ounce Organic Carrots & Celery.

The FDA said the products recalled by F&S Fresh Foods were sold at Whole Foods Market stores in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho and Nevada.