Smucker voluntarily recalls flour products due to possible E. coli contamination quoting : MarketWatch

Smucker Co. SJM, +0.06% said Wednesday that it is working with the U.S. Food and addiction Administration to voluntarily recall flour products due to possible E. coli 0121 contamination. Impacted brands include specific production codes in the Golden Temple, Swad and Maya brands. Smucker facebook/" target="_blank">shares are down nearly 10% for the last three months while the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.05% is up 2.1% for the period. Smucker Foods of Canada, a division of J.M. The merchandise is packaged in 20-pound paper bags and was distributed to 19 distributors and two small retailers.




An E. coli outbreak in Canada traced to flour produced by Colorado-based Ardent Mills Corp. spurred Smucker Foods to recall three brands of flour distributed across the United States. Ardent Mills doubled down on that stand with the recall of its flour in the U.S."(Canadian Food Inspection Agency) CFIA requested this expanded recall of flour and flour products which were made, in part, using 11 loads of Canadian wheat which were common to the prior recalled flour and flour products and may have contained trace amounts of E. coli O121," the Ardent Mills spokeswoman said. "Given our focus on cooperating with the CFIA in its investigation, we have not taken time to estimate the amount of product that has been subject to the voluntary recalls," the Ardent Mills spokeswoman said. Similar to the response from General Mills when more than 60 people were sickened in an E. coli from December 2015 through September 2016 that was linked to flour, Ardent Mills contends its products are safe and that flour should not be consumed raw. "The impacted product was produced by Ardent Mills located in Saskatoon, SK Canada.

Smucker Foods recalls flour nationwide on E. coli concerns

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