114,350 lbs of Shelled Hazelnuts are being recalled by Willamette Shelling. That’s 51.87 metric tons! The company recently found out that a few of their Hazelnuts may be contaminated with Salmonella, so they’re doing the right thing and yanking everything that was processed at the infected facility off the market.
Salmonella is such a fun organism. In addition to causing fatal infections in kids, even in perfectly healthy people it offers a multiple choice option of fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. If it really likes you, it gets into your bloodstream and busts out an infected aneurysm for you, endocarditis and maybe even a touch of arthritis.
Fun!
The products in the recall “were packed in 25 lbs. and 50 lbs. corrugated boxes with lot code numbers 296091A, 299091A, 300091A, VH3696BO, and 310091A. Those corrugated boxes bore the following brand names: Kunze Farms, Evonuk Oregon Hazelnuts, Canadian Hazelnuts, and Firestone Farms”
If you have ’em, chunk ’em.
