Posted on 06/03/2025 1:21:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class I recall, the most serious designation, for tomatoes potentially containing deadly bacteria.
Class I recalls indicate a potential for “serious adverse health consequences or death.”
Williams Farms Repack LLC recalled multiple tomato sizes due to potential salmonella contamination.
The FDA updated the recall to Class I designation on Wednesday.
Williams Farms Repack LLC Recalls Tomatoes Due to Possible Salmonella Contamination https://t.co/VZrbo0NEfQ pic.twitter.com/whsBY5IZTD
— U.S. FDA Recalls (@FDArecalls) May 2, 2025
Daily Mail reports:
The recall covers shipments from April 23 to April 28 sold in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Affected products were sold in the following packaging formats: 5×6 25lb, 6×6 25lb, Combo 25lb, 4×4 2layer, 4×5 2layer, 60ct 2layer, 60ct 18lb loose, XL 18lb Loose and 3ct trays with UPC 0 33383 65504 8.
The lot numbers are R4467 and R4470.
No illnesses have been reported, but salmonella can cause serious and fatal illnesses in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems.
“Salmonella an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain,” the FDA wrote.
“In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis,” it added.
FDA issues most serious recall alert for tomatoes that carry 'reasonable risk of DEATH' https://t.co/u6KiNdN5F4
— Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) May 29, 2025
Per Newsweek:
Jeongmin Song, professor of microbiology & immunology at Cornell University, New York, previously told Newsweek: “Generally speaking, picking and packaging produce at the farm and the facility can result in food contamination. Some potential causes include polluted fertilizers and fomites at the packing facilities, while there are many plausible explanations. Although food and facility contaminations, such as the recent cases, do occur occasionally, they are uncommon in the U.S. and other developed countries owing to strict hygiene standards.”
She added: “Healthy individuals with robust immune systems can recover from a Salmonella infection even after consumption. However, some vulnerable groups, such as young children, the elderly, or those with weakened immune systems, would be at risk from contaminated products. Even if there was Salmonella on the tomatoes, most contaminated bacteria can be eliminated by washing them before consumption.”
The Food and Drug Administration said on its website: “When a company announces a recall, market withdrawal, or safety alert, the FDA posts the company’s announcement as a public service. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance on salmonella said: “In some people, the illness may be so severe that the patient is hospitalized. Salmonella infection may spread from the intestines to the bloodstream and then to other parts of the body.”
“...No illnesses have been reported...”
They’re coming off my shopping list. Truthfully, I haven’t had any good tomatoes this year - tough skin on the outside and really tough throughout. One needs to grow their own to get good ones as what we’re buying in the markets aren’t good tomatoes...We have a salvage store in our city that sells tomatoes grown by a customer - always excellent in the past. Even those aren’t great this year. That store sells everything - even -
“”Ammo canisters in .50 Cal, 7.62mm and more.””
What more can anyone want?
Great timing!
Just came in from planting 10 tomato seedlings, to read this post
Pardon me, but my personal opinion is that we are no better off than the Biden/Obama cronies running things.
Where is the control and leadership?
My Rah! is going to Huh and I voted for this.
Getting ready to plant some now.
Enjoy the finished product! I have heard people say they plant TOMATO SEED...I never heard of that. I always bought the plants and planted those - seeds? Grew up on a farm and never heard of tomato seed.. We had a huge garden - our dad planted it, we kids gathered all the “goodies” and our mother canned everything.
Nothing like tomato sandwiches. I was on vacation one year and at an aunt’s home, we were making tomato sandwiches. I asked where the “mayo” was and she said, “if God wanted you to have mayo on your tomatoes, it would grow in the garden” and I said, “same with salt - Auntie.” All in good humor.
A side note - you realize how old you’re getting when your parents are gone and then all your aunts and uncles and many cousins...Good times to remember!!
I grew some from seed two years ago, but this year I’m going with ‘Celebrity’ and ‘Better Boy’ plants a foot or so tall, one already with little tomatoes.
I tried beefsteak, but a few had the cracking around the stem. Big & juicy though.
I have a store bought one on the counter you could play pickle ball with it.
Serious question: Where did you think the tomato plants [seedlings] you bought came from?
bump
I’m guessing the same place babies come from?
My parents told us kids, they found us under Pussy Jones’ powder wagon.
I said I never heard of anyone planting the seeds for homegrown tomatoes - obviously they started from seeds but not usually in people’s home gardens. OK?
Seedling starter peat pods in a window, grow lite or even outside, so you can just put them in the ground when it gets big enough. I use a little Schultz TakeRoot rooting hormone.
PS The seeds are tinier than Jasmine Crockett’s brain.
Planted tomato plants in CA for years - loved the smell and the taste of homegrown tomatoes. The drawback - TOMATO WORMS! I had a Pekingese who would go into the garden and pick them off the plants but curl her lips so they weren’t touching the WORM...came out of the garden and dropped them on the grass like she wanted a “thanks”..
I’ll be skipping tomatoes in the store this week...love BLT sandwiches and in salads with Poppy Seed Dressing but for some reason my store isn’t carrying that any longer!! I’ll make sure to eyeball the tomatoes in the produce section to see if they are selling any. Perhaps from somewhere other than where they’re recalled? I saw the recall online and it was numbers of shipments but who would have access to those besides the retailer? Always more questions than answers in today’s world..
Compost, loose soil and Brawndo: “It’s got what plants crave.”
I must get Chuck Norris seeds & plants, no bug problems.
Just the cracking I mentioned on the ‘beefsteak’.
PS I suspect the cracking is from watering, or lack thereof.
Once I put them in the ground, they’re on their own pretty much.
re: “ we are no better off than the Biden/Obama cronies running things”
This is only Day 135; Rome was not reformed in two quarters even ...
WHOOPS! The lot numbers I mentioned were from this thread. I thought they were from “Across Georgia Patch” email about the salmonella...Can only do one thing at a time!!! So much to do - so little time...”cats to kills, contracts to fill.”
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