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 overall variety of merchandise to greater than 60.

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

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

“Up to now, Quaker has acquired no confirmed studies of sickness associated to the merchandise coated by this recall,” the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration stated in December. It’s unclear if any diseases 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 supplied an choice to request reimbursement.

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

Salmonella is an organism that may trigger severe and generally deadly infections in younger kids, frail or older adults, and folks with weakened immune methods.

Widespread signs of salmonella embody fever, nausea, vomiting, belly ache and diarrhea, which can be bloody. In uncommon instances, salmonella can get into the bloodstream and lead to extra extreme diseases, comparable to contaminated arteries, in keeping with the F.D.A.

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

Different current salmonella-related remembers have been linked to quite a lot of meals, comparable to greens, fruits and meats. A minimum of 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 keeping with the C.D.C.