Blue Ridge Beef is recalling their Breeders Choice 2# log pet food Lot# 8/2/24 UPC 8 54298 00193 1 due to Salmonella contamination.
On Oct. 27, the agency was notified by the Food and Drug Administration that the pet food examined constructive for Salmonella. Salmonella can infect animals consuming the merchandise and there may be danger to people from dealing with contaminated pet merchandise, particularly in the event that they haven’t totally washed their palms after having contact with the merchandise or any surfaces uncovered to those merchandise.
This is the corporate’s fourth recall since 2017. The FDA despatched a warning letter to the corporate in 2020 after discovering Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria in its plant.
Pets with Salmonella infections could also be torpid and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Some pets can have solely decreased urge for food, fever, and stomach ache. Infected however in any other case wholesome pets will be carriers and infect different animals or people. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these signs, please contact your veterinarian.
No diseases have been reported to this point.
The product was distributed between Aug. 8 and Aug. 25. The recalled product was packaged in clear plastic and offered primarily in retail shops in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. It might have been offered in different states.
There is concern that buyers might have the recalled pet food of their freezers, so anybody who purchased Blue Ridge Beef meals from Aug. 8 by means of Aug. 25 ought to verify their freezers for the affected lot numbers.
Consumers who’ve bought this product are urged to contact Blue Ridge Beef immediately at [email protected] for a full refund or destroy the meals in a method that youngsters, pets, and wildlife can not access.
Wash and sanitize any pet meals bowls, cups and storage containers , utensils and surfaces which have are available in contact with the recalled pet food. Always make sure you wash and sanitize your palms after dealing with pet meals. Consumers with questions might contact Steven Lea at 704-880-4500.
About Salmonella infections in people
Food contaminated with Salmonella micro organism doesn’t often look, scent, or style spoiled. Anyone can develop into sick with a Salmonella an infection. Infants, youngsters, seniors, and other people with weakened immune techniques are at greater danger of significant sickness as a result of their immune techniques are fragile, in keeping with the CDC.
Anyone who has dealt with any of the recalled pet food and developed signs of Salmonella an infection ought to search medical consideration. Sick folks ought to inform their medical doctors concerning the attainable publicity to Salmonella micro organism as a result of particular exams are essential to diagnose salmonellosis. Salmonella an infection signs can mimic different diseases, incessantly resulting in misdiagnosis.
Symptoms of Salmonella an infection can embrace diarrhea, stomach cramps, and fever inside 12 to 72 hours after consuming contaminated meals. Otherwise, wholesome adults are often sick for 4 to seven days. In some instances, nonetheless, diarrhea could also be so extreme that sufferers require hospitalization.
Older adults, youngsters, pregnant ladies, and other people with weakened immune techniques, equivalent to most cancers sufferers, usually tend to develop a extreme sickness and critical, typically life-threatening circumstances.
Some folks get contaminated with out getting sick or displaying any signs. However, they might nonetheless unfold the infections to others.
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