Taylor Farms recall expands as company pulls jalapeos from Trader Joe's, Target, among others

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Set us as preferred Taylor Farms has become the latest distributor to recall food products that contain jalapeños that are potentially contaminated with salmonella and linked to a larger multi-state bacterial outbreak that includes California.The ready-to-use food products that Taylor Farms recalled over the weekend had been sold at Trader Joe’s, Walmart and Target, among other grocers across the nation.On Sunday, the Salinas-based distributor Taylor Fresh Foods announced it was also recalling imported jalapeños that came from a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Taylor Fresh had just last month voluntarily recalled imported contaminated lettuce from a grower in Central Mexico that was linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak that affected 15 states and sicked tens of thousands of people.In this new contamination case, a Sinaloa-based grower was identified by the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration as the likely source of a salmonella outbreak that affected at least 345 people last week across 27 states, including California.Business Chipotle says it has removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants after determining the peppers could be tied to a salmonella outbreak public health officials are investigating.To identify the source of the outbreak, FDA officials conducted a traceback investigation — a process in which officials trace food that made people ill all the way back to the farm or production facility.

They interviewed 191 afflicted people, and found that 177 reported eating at Mexican-style restaurants including Chipotle Mexican Grill and Qdoba before their illness.Based on the investigation, health officials concluded that the contaminated jalapeños were imported from the Sinaloa grower to Coast Citrus Distributors, which is based in San Diego and supplied the restaurants.Taylor Farms also received imported jalapeños...