The recalled cantaloupes are sold with the “Malichita” label.

Sofia Produce, LLC, which does industry below the title “Trufresh”, is recalling all sizes of its recent cantaloupes sold with the “Malichita” label because of possible salmonella contamination, consistent with an organization announcement posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration web page Wednesday.

The cantaloupes have been disbursed at once in states together with Arizona, California, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas and Florida, the Nogales, Arizona-based corporate mentioned.

The recalled cantaloupes have been disbursed between Oct. 16-23, 2023, and have been sold in retail produce markets and packaged in cardboard bins containing the “Malichita” label, consistent with the corporate’s announcement.

In its announcement, Trufresh mentioned it initiated the voluntary recall after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency initiated its own recall earlier this month of cantaloupes packaged with the identical Malichita label, because of conceivable salmonella contamination.

In Canada, the recalled cantaloupes have been disbursed in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and “possibly other provinces and territories,” the Canadian government said.

Salmonella “is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems,” consistent with the FDA. Symptoms of salmonella come with nausea, diarrhea, fever, vomiting and stomach ache.

There have to this point been no sicknesses reported with the recalled cantaloupes, consistent with Trufresh.

The recalled cantaloupes each and every have a PLU decal with the phrase Malichita on most sensible and the quantity 4050 on the backside, alongside with the phrases “Product of Mexico/produit du Mexique,” consistent with the corporate’s announcement.

In addition to being disbursed in Canada and 10 U.S. states, the corporate famous the recalled cantaloupes can have additionally reached shoppers in different states via gross sales at “retail produce markets.”

Trufresh has instructed shoppers to test if they’ve the recalled merchandise, and not to “consume, serve, use, sell or distribute” the recalled merchandise if that is so.

Consumers who’ve recalled cantaloupes can both throw them out or go back them to the location the place they bought them. Consumers who revel in well being problems must touch a doctor.

Customers might also touch Trufesh consultant Rafael Roiz at 520-394-7370, Monday via Friday, from 8 a.m. to five p.m. MT, for extra information.