TreeHouse Foods Recalls Frozen Waffles Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination
TreeHouse Foods is expanding their recently announced voluntary frozen waffle recall to include all products made at the TreeHouse Foods’ Brantford, Canada facility, due to the potential for Listeria monocytogenes, according to a Department of Defense All Food and Drug Activity message sent Oct. 23.
Listeria monocytogenes may cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, the frail or elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. Healthy adults may only suffer short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infections may also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. The illness caused by these bacteria can take up to 70 days to appear. Persons in the higher-risk categories who experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated food should seek medical care and tell the health care provider about eating the contaminated food.
The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) has publicized this recall to all its stores, according to Richard Stith, supervisory consumer safety officer for DeCA Headquarters and Support Center at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia. Whenever a commissary has recalled or withdrawn products in its inventory, they are immediately removed from store shelves.
The following is a list of products that are affected by this recall.
- Kodiak Power Waffles Buttermilk and Vanilla: UPC 705599012211, all lot codes
- Kodiak Power Waffles Dark Chocolate: UPC 705599012709, all lot codes
- Kodiak Power Waffles Chocolate Chip: UPC 705599013201, all lot codes
- Kodiak Thick and Fluffy Power Waffles Buttermilk and Vanilla: UPC 705599014802, all lot codes
- Kodiak Thick and Fluffy Power Waffles Blueberry: UPC 705599014826, all lot codes
- Kodiak Thick and Fluffy Power Waffles Chocolate Chip: UPC 705599015137, all lot codes
- Kodiak Cubs Adventure Waffles Original: UPC 705599017148, all lot codes
- Kodiak Cubs Adventure Waffles Cinnamon: UPC 705599017162, all lot codes
This recall includes products sold in some commissaries, while the initial recall did not.
Anyone who has a recalled product in their possession should dispose of it immediately or return it to the commissary of purchase for a refund.
No other Kodiak products are made at this facility, including all Kodiak frozen products not listed above. No other Kodiak products are affected by this recall.
For any further questions or support needed, please reach out to your Kodiak sales representative or to Kodiak via email at flapjacks@kodiakcakes.com or by phone at 801-328-4067.