{"id":44323,"date":"2025-07-03T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44323"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:23:36","slug":"368k-pounds-of-oscar-mayer-turkey-bacon-recalled-over-possible-listeria-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44323","title":{"rendered":"368K pounds of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon recalled over possible listeria contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly 368,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon products are being recalled over possible contamination with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/listeria-recall-fda-fresh-ready-foods-70aa9b3bcb469fcfd74c9fc3c8b257ca\">listeria bacteria that can cause food poisoning<\/a>, federal health officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">No illnesses have been confirmed to date, U.S. agriculture department officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Kraft Heinz Food Company of Newberry, South Carolina, announced the recall of the fully cooked turkey bacon that was produced from April 24 to June 11. The problem was discovered when the company\u2019s laboratory testing indicated potential listeria contamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The recall includes the following products, which were shipped to U.S. stores nationwide, as well as the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 12-ounce packages of Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon Original with the UPC code 071871548601 printed on the package under the bar code. They have use-by dates from July 18 to Aug. 2 and the lot code RS40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 36-ounce packages of Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon Original containing three 12-ounce packages of product with the UPC code 071871548748 printed on the package under the barcode. They include use-by dates from July 23 to Sept. 4 and lot codes RS19, RS40 and RS42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 48-ounce packages of Oscar Mayer Turkey Bacon Original containing four 12-ounce packages of product with the UPC code 071871548793 printed on the package under the barcode. They include use-by dates from July 18 to Sept. 4 and lot codes RS19, RS40 and RS42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Consumers shouldn\u2019t eat the products, which may be in their refrigerators or freezers. They should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Listeria infections can cause serious illness, particularly in older adults, people with weakened immune systems and those who are pregnant or their newborns. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">About 1,600 people get sick each year from listeria infections and about 260 die, the CDC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Federal officials in December said they were revamping protocols to prevent listeria infections after several high-profile outbreaks, including one linked to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/listeria-boars-head-deli-meat-65c4016aea0fc9e8505350ebc7b41e39\">Boar\u2019s Head deli meats<\/a>&nbsp;that led to 10 deaths and more than 60 illnesses last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/368000-pounds-oscar-mayer-turkey-bacon-recalled-listeria-123430197\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 368,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon products are being recalled over possible contamination with&nbsp;listeria bacteria that can cause food poisoning, federal health officials said Wednesday. No illnesses have been confirmed to date, U.S. agriculture department officials said. Kraft Heinz Food Company of Newberry, South Carolina, announced the recall of the fully cooked turkey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[33842],"class_list":["post-44323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-33842"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44325,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323\/revisions\/44325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}