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By Hatty Willmoth
Food & Nutrition Reporter
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Cucumber cups, bowls and salads are being recalled in the latest of several cucumber recalls linked to a multistate outbreak of salmonella.
Texas-based Supreme Service Solutions, LLC, announced the voluntary recall on Wednesday, involving Supreme Product cucumber products sold in Kroger and King Soopers retail stores in Texas and Colorado.
The cucumbers were purchased from SunFed Produce LLC, of Arizona, which is currently at the center of an investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into cases of Salmonella typhimurium. SunFed initiated its own recall of cucumbers after it was notified by the FDA that the vegetables had been linked to people getting salmonella infections from October 12 to November 15.
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So far, 68 people have become ill and 18 hospitalized across 19 U.S. states, linked to contaminated cucumbers grown in Mexico and sold by importers from October 12 onwards. Cucumber recalls have been called by SunFed Produce, Baloian Farms of Arizona Co. and Russ Davis Wholesale of their cucumbers, and cucumber product recalls have been called by Walmart, JFE Franchising, Yummi Sushi and now Supreme Service Solutions.
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Salmonella is a bacterium that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, frail or elderly adults and individuals with weakened immune systems.
Healthy people infected with salmonella—an illness called salmonellosis—may experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
Rarely, salmonellosis can result in bacteria getting into the bloodstream, which can cause more severe illnesses such as infected blood vessels, heart inflammation and arthritis.
Symptoms of salmonella usually start between six hours and six days after eating contaminated food and tend to last for four to seven days. So far, no one has died in connection with this outbreak and no illnesses or complaints have been reported for items purchased from Supreme.
Supreme stopped selling its products that used recalled cucumbers and completed sanitation procedures to ensure the infection did not contaminate other products, after SunFed informed the company of its cucumber recall.
SunFed announced its voluntary recall on November 27, impacting all sizes of the whole fresh American cucumbers.
Cucumber products recalled by Supreme had best-by dates ranging from November 22 to December 6, 2024, located on the bottom label of the products.
The salad and cucumber products were packaged in clear plastic grab-n-go containers of various sizes, with weights that ranged from 9.5oz to 42oz.
The FDA is advising consumers to check their refrigerators and freezers for any recalled cucumbers involved in this, and other, recalls and to discard the affected products without consuming them.
Consumers with questions can contact SunFed's recall hotline (888) 542-5849 from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. MST.
Newsweek has approached SunFed and the FDA for comment on this recall.
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