• Skanky@lemmy.world
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    Ooof. TreeHouse foods is in a world of hurt. Listeria is incredibly hard to get rid of in a factory. It usually means shutting down the entire operation until everything is thoroughly steam -cleaned and sanitized. Then, an inspection team will go through the entire factory and swab everything with a q-tip. And I mean everything. Every little nook and cranny. If any of these samples comes back positive, the whole routine starts over again. It can take weeks.

    I’ve known factories that literally choose to shut the entire plant down and build a new one rather than try to sanitize the one they had.

    Listeria is no joke

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    Eggo brand were not affected. Here’s the list of store brands that are:

    • Aldi’s (Breakfast Best brand)
    • Dollar General (Clover Valley brand)
    • Food Lion
    • Giant Eagle
    • Hannaford
    • Harris Teeter
    • H-E-B
    • PriceChopper (PICS brand)
    • Publix
    • Schnucks
    • Southeastern Grocers
    • Target (Good & Gather brand)
    • Tops
    • Walmart (Great Value brand)

    Also these brands:

    • Foodhold
    • Kodiak Cakes (I’ve seen these at Stop & Shop)
    • Simple Truth
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      As someone who recently bought Eggo waffles and was worriedly reading the article: you can keep your hands off my Eggo, it was store brand stuff that was affected.

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    Eh, probably needed to cut back on monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminium phosphate, and mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids anyhow.