Food Recall: Another Trader Joe's Salad

California-based Huxtable's Kitchen is initiating a voluntary recall of  roasted butternut squash, red quinoa and wheatberry salad because the onions used as an ingredient have the potential to be contaminated by Listeria monocytogenes, according to a press release issued by the FDA.

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

Trader Joe's roasted butternut squash, red quinoa and wheatberry salad with "use by date" of 7/28/2012 and 7/30/2012 comes in a 9.5-ounce clear plastic container. The "use by date" is marked on a sticker on the front of the package. The recalled product was distributed from 7/23/12 to 7/26/12 to Trader Joe's stores in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington. No other Trader Joe's stores are affected by this recall, the release said.

The onions are a product of Gill Onions, Oxnard, Calif., which initiated a recall of the onions on July 18, 2012, and were supplied to Huxtable's Kitchen, Inc. Immediately following notification from Huxtable's Kitchen, Inc., Trader Joe's removed affected product from store shelves and destroyed them.

No illnesses have been linked to this recall. Anyone who has the recalled product in their possession should not consume it and should destroy or discard it. Consumers with questions may contact Huxtable’s Kitchen: at 323-923-2885, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT.

Last week, the same company issued a recall for its  salad.