Quaker Oats Recollects Extra Merchandise Over Potential Salmonella Contamination

The Quaker Oats Firm added extra merchandise this week to a recall that began final month over potential salmonella contamination, elevating the full variety of merchandise to greater than 60.

Quaker Oats, which is owned by PepsiCo, initially recalled 43 merchandise, together with granola bars, cereals and varied snack meals. On Thursday, the corporate added 24 merchandise to the checklist.

The newly recalled objects embrace Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, Gatorade protein bars, Cap’n Crunch bars, Quaker Merely Granola Cereals, Gamesa Marias Cereal and different cereals.

“To this point, Quaker has acquired no confirmed reviews of sickness associated to the merchandise coated by this recall,” the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration mentioned in December. It’s unclear if any sicknesses have been reported since then.

It was not instantly clear how the potential contamination occurred or how or when it first got here to the eye of federal regulators or the corporate. Quaker Oats didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Saturday.

On its web site, the corporate listed the recalled merchandise and offered an choice to request reimbursement.

Prospects ought to test their pantries for any of the merchandise and get rid of them, the F.D.A. mentioned.

Salmonella is an organism that may trigger critical and typically deadly infections in younger youngsters, frail or older adults, and other people with weakened immune methods.

Widespread signs of salmonella embrace fever, nausea, vomiting, belly ache and diarrhea, which can be bloody. In uncommon circumstances, salmonella can get into the bloodstream and end in extra extreme sicknesses, reminiscent of contaminated arteries, in accordance with the F.D.A.

People who’re uncovered normally begin to really feel sick six hours to 6 days later. Most infections are delicate and final between 4 and 7 days.

Different current salmonella-related remembers have been linked to a wide range of meals, reminiscent of greens, fruits and meats. At the very least two individuals died in a salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes that the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention introduced in November.

Salmonella micro organism trigger about 1.35 million infections, 26,500 hospitalizations and 420 deaths in america yearly, in accordance with the C.D.C.