The FDA has announced a voluntary recall by Freshouse II LLC due to a potential listeria infection.
“We have voluntarily issued this reminder out of an abundance of caution with the rigid intention to minimize even the slightest risk to public health,” Freshouse President Jamey Friedman said in a statement.
The recalled products were shipped directly to retail centers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia and to wholesalers in Maryland and North Carolina. Influenced products include Freshouse limes, Nature’s Promise Organic limes, Fresh from the Start red potatoes and lemons, as well as Wegmans lemons and California Valencia oranges.
This is the second such voluntary return of products this month.
For the lemons, limes, oranges and potatoes, no diseases have been reported, according to the FDA.
Freshouse says they have stopped production and distribution of the products and “continuously evaluate our cleaning and sanitation regimes.”
Listeria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, vulnerable as well as older people, and others with weakened immune systems, according to the FDA.
Healthy individuals may only suffer from short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. However, listeria infection can be particularly tragic for those who carry babies, and can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
CNN’s Faith Karimi and Maggie Fox contributed to this report.
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