Freshway Foods Voluntarily Recalls Out-of-Date Sliced Apples Because of Possible Health Risk

Freshway Foods is voluntarily recalling 6,671 pounds of sliced apples that were packaged on November 12 using the same packaging machine, which may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. A table of recalled consumer pack products, their respective use-by-dates and the states to which the company shipped them is provided below. No illnesses have been linked to this recall.

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

December 8, 2012
Freshway Foods Voluntary Recall of Sliced Apples

UPC Number	Use by Date	Product Description	Individual Consumer  Package Size	States to which FreshwayFoods shipped the product
not applicable	11/30/2012	RED APPLE SLICE2.4 OZ. SONICS	2.4 OZ	Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin
95829 20000	12/03/2012 and 12/6/2012	RED APPLE SLICE14 OZ.	14 OZ	Florida, Georgia,
		MOTTS INNERLOCK BAG		North Carolina
95829 20042	12/03/2012	GREEN APPLE SLICE 14 OZ.	14 OZ	North Carolina
		MOTTS INNERLOCK BAG