A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to newly recalled heat-and-eat chicken fettucine alfredo products sold at Kroger and Walmart stores, federal health officials said late Tuesday.
The outbreak, which includes at least 17 people in 13 states, began last July, officials said. At least 16 people have been hospitalized.
FreshRealm, a large food producer with sites in California, Georgia and Indiana, is recalling products made before June 17. The recall includes these products, which were sold in the refrigerated sections of retail stores:
That’s why I bake my flour before I use it.
Why not just buy it all premade from Walmart. What’s the worst that could happen, listeria or something?
Probably safe, then, as long as the flour is never in a powdered form that can spread easily through the air and settle on surfaces.
I have a friend who buys his own wheat berries and grinds it into flour for bread. I don’t know how much more work it would be to make pasta flour.
Wheat berries?
Strangely enough, that’s the correct name for it. He said that if you buy wheat as wheat berries, it has an extremely long shelf life, but I have not independently verified that.