Viva Uncooked LLC, Hillsborough, North Carolina, U.S., recalled canine and cat meals, together with the Viva Turkey for Canines Floor, Viva Turkey for Canines Chunked, Viva Turkey for Cats, Viva Pure Turkey, and Viva Beef & Turkey for Puppies, all manufactured below Lot 21244, in keeping with the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration. This lot, which incorporates these 5 merchandise, was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and is a possible well being danger to folks and pets.
No diseases associated to this lot have been reported to this point.
The problem was found throughout a facility inspection carried out by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) and The North Carolina Division of Agriculture (NCDA). The FDA examined samples of Viva Turkey for Canines and located samples from Lot 21244 had been constructive for Listeria monocytogenes. All merchandise produced in Lot 21244 had been slated for destruction. Nonetheless, a few of the product from this lot was inadvertently launched from the warehouse.
The merchandise had been distributed on to customers in all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Solely merchandise from Lot 21244 are affected, Viva Uncooked is notifying all clients who had been shipped any Turkey or Beef & Turkey for Puppies merchandise between Might sixteenth and June twenty eighth, 2024.
The product is distributed as frozen 1 lb. bricks in clear vacuum packaging. Please see the connected instance of product labels. There are no expiration dates for these merchandise.
Merchandise matching the particular lot quantity under are being recalled:
Viva Turkey for Canines Floor
Viva Turkey for Canines ChunkedÂ
Viva Turkey for Cats
Viva Pure Turkey
Viva Beef &Turkey for Puppies
Results of Listeria on pets and other people
Listeria monocytogenes could cause critical and generally deadly infections in pets consuming contaminated merchandise. Folks can develop into uncovered to this pathogen by a number of routes resembling dealing with the contaminated merchandise, contact with pets which have eaten contaminated merchandise and/or contact with surfaces which have touched contaminated meals, resembling bowls, utensils, or counter tops. Threat of human sickness from Listeria monocytogenes contaminated pet meals will increase if folks don’t totally wash their palms after dealing with the meals or having contact with their pet, or by not totally cleansing contaminated surfaces.
Wholesome folks contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes might expertise some or the entire following signs: nausea, vomiting, aches, fever and diarrhea. Listeria monocytogenes infections can unfold by the bloodstream to the nervous system (together with the mind), leading to meningitis and different doubtlessly deadly diseases. Pregnant girls are particularly inclined to Listeria an infection, which may end up in miscarriage. The younger, the aged, and other people with weak immune programs are extra susceptible to an infection. Folks exhibiting indicators of Listeria monocytogenes an infection after having contact with recalled product(s) or a pet that has eaten recalled product(s) ought to contact their healthcare suppliers.
Listeria monocytogenes diseases in pets are uncommon, and contaminated pets might show signs resembling gentle to extreme diarrhea, anorexia, fever, nervous, muscular and respiratory indicators, miscarriage, despair, shock and loss of life. Pets uncovered to contaminated meals could be contaminated with out exhibiting signs. Contaminated pets, even when they don’t present signs, can act as carriers and switch L. monocytogenes by their feces and saliva into the house setting and to folks and different pets within the family. In case your pet has eaten the recalled product(s) and has signs of Listeria monocytogenes an infection, please contact your veterinarian.
