RI Health Warns of Recall on E.A. Sween Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination

RI Health Warns of Recall on E.A. Sween Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination

The Rhode Island Department of Health is warning consumers that E.A. Sween Company is recalling multiple products due to the potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes.

This comes as Tip Top Poultry, Inc., recently issued a recall, they are an ingredient provider to two of E.A. Sween’s suppliers, The Suter Company, Inc. that provides chicken salad products and Baja Foods LLC that provides burritos, to the company. 

RI Health has confirmed that the recalled product was distributed in Rhode Island.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not received any reported illnesses related to this organism.

Retailers have been instructed to remove affected products from store shelves and inventory immediately. Customer partners with questions are asked to call our Customer Service hotline at 1-800-328-8184 and select #6 for information and refund instructions.

Consumers may return the affected product to the store where it was purchased for a full refund or exchange.

Listeria monocytogenes.

Listeria monocytogenesis an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, pregnant women, and others with weakened immune systems.

Although 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, stillbirths, and fetal infection among pregnant women.