A frozen natural strawberry product topic to the remembers is pictured in a photograph supplied by the FDA.

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Food and Drug Administration

A frozen natural strawberry product topic to the remembers is pictured in a photograph supplied by the FDA.

Food and Drug Administration

Frozen natural strawberries offered at shops throughout the U.S., together with Costco, Aldi and Trader Joe’s, have been recalled over the product’s potential hyperlink to an outbreak of hepatitis A infections in Washington state.

The Food and Drug Administration is advising folks to not eat sure frozen strawberry manufacturers after 5 individuals who had eaten frozen strawberries final yr had been later sickened. Two folks had been hospitalized, in response to the federal company.

An FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigation found that each one 5 folks contaminated had purchased the identical model of frozen natural strawberries earlier than changing into unwell. Those berries, which got here from a typical provider that imported them from some farms in Baja California, Mexico, “are the likely source of this outbreak,” the CDC said.

Two firms have since issued voluntary remembers in response to the investigation. California Splendor of San Diego recalled specific lots of 4-pound bags of Kirkland Signature Frozen Organic Whole Strawberries that had been offered at Costco shops in Los Angeles, Hawaii and two San Diego enterprise facilities.

Scenic Fruit Company, primarily based in Gresham, Ore., recalled frozen natural strawberries offered in several states — at Costco, Aldi, KeHE, Vital Choice Seafood and PCC Community Markets. The firm additionally recalled a frozen natural tropical fruit mix, that features strawberries, offered at Trader Joe’s places nationwide.

The recall applies to the frozen merchandise offered below the next model names: Simply Nature, Vital Choice, Kirkland Signature, Made With, PCC Community Markets and Trader Joe’s.

The FDA urges shoppers to destroy these merchandise or return it to their native retailer for a refund “out of an abundance of caution.”

Hepatitis A is a contagious liver infection, in response to the CDC, typically unfold by way of shut contact with an contaminated individual or by means of consuming contaminated meals or drink. Symptoms, which might take as many as seven weeks to indicate up, can embody vomiting, abdomen ache, darkish urine or pale stool, diarrhea and fatigue.