Trader Joe’s urges customers to discard any bags of frozen Organic Tropical Fruit Blend they have on hand or return them to a store for a full refund.
FILE - A woman shops in the frozen foods section at Trader Joe's. The grocery store recalled its frozen Organic Tropical Fruit Blend due to a potential contamination of hepatitis A.Trader Joe’s issued a recall Thursday of its frozen Organic Tropical Fruit Blend for possible hepatitis A contamination. The best-by dates that could be affected include April 25, May 12, May 23, May 30 and June 7, 2024.
Hepatitis A is a highly transmissible virus, though it can only be spread “through the fecal-oral route,” according to the, which includes eating contaminated foods. Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, among others. In 2018, the CDC suspects that nearly 25,000 Americans were infected by the virus, citing that cases have increased dramatically since 2016.
Humans can prevent symptoms with a two-dose series of the hepatitis A vaccine, which can be administered by any doctor. Anyone over the age of 1 is eligible to receive the vaccine. This is the third item recalled by Trader Joe’s this month; the first two were for salad products that potentially contained undeclared
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