Hy-Vee Recalls Summer Fresh Pasta Salad for Potential Listeria Contamination

Hy-Vee Inc. of West Des Moines, IA, has recalled its Hy-Vee Summer Fresh Pasta Salad sold in its stores’ kitchen department cold cases and salad bars.

The product was recalled after Hy-Vee was notified that the frozen vegetables used to make the ready-to-eat pasta were potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The frozen vegetables were produced by Inventure Foods Inc., which recalled some of its products last week after Listeria was found in its facility in Jefferson, GA.

The Summer Fresh Pasta Salad is packaged upon customer request from the kitchen cold case and would have been packaged in 16-oz. (1 lb.) or 32-oz. (2 lb.) clear plastic containers. A light tan scale-produced label with the product name, weight and price would have been affixed to the container.

The recalled product would have been available in a limited number of stores between April 9, 2015, and April 27, 2015.

Hy-Vee has since pulled the ready-to-eat Summer Fresh Pasta Salad from its distribution channels and the stores in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota to which it was distributed. All stores that received the product have been instructed to dispose of it.

Hy-Vee stated that it had not received any complaints to date associated with its Summer Fresh Pasta Salad.

Customers who purchased Summer Fresh Pasta Salad from the Hy-Vee kitchen department cold case or salad bar between April 9, 2015, and April 27, 2015, should dispose of the product or return it to the store for a refund.

Those with questions may call Hy-Vee Customer Care at 1-800-772-4098.

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although 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.

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