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White Castle recalls frozen burgers for listeria risk
White Castle is voluntarily recalling select boxes of frozen sandwiches “for the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes.”
According to the notice posted on the Food and Drug Administration website, the recall includes a limited number of frozen six- pack cheeseburgers, sixpack hamburgers, six- pack jalapeno cheeseburgers, 16- pack hamburgers and 16- pack cheeseburgers.
The recalled products have “best- by dates” ranging from Aug. 4, 2020 to Aug. 17, 2020, according to the notice.
Products with these dates are being removed from stores, according to the notice.
There have been no reported illnesses from the products to date, the notice states, noting White Castle products with best- by dates before or after are not included in the recall.
A full list of the affected products with lot codes and dates is listed at www. fda. gov.
“Of all the products we are recalling – none tested positive for listeria – but a later production date did – that’s why we did this on a voluntary basis to make certain we were acting quickly with an abundance of caution,” White Castle Vice President Jamie Richardson told USA TODAY. “In total, the recall impacts about 72,000 packages of our frozen sandwiches. To put that in perspective, that’s about 0.1% of our annual production.”
Richardson said many of the products were pulled before they could be sold, and it’s estimated only “about 10% of these packages or 7,200 or less ever made it to retail shelves.”
Richardson said the products were shipped to 22 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
White Castle is urging consumers who have purchased the recalled products to dispose of them or return them. For more information, call 800- 8432728.
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