Food product
Caramel and Pecan Apple labeled as Merbs Candies, Bionic Apple, St. Louis individually packaged in plastic wrappers.
F-1352-2015
Product summary
- Firm
- Sugar Daddy LTD
- Event
- Event 70126
- Status
- Terminated
- Classification
- Class I
- Quantity
- 70,500 wholesale caramel apples (30 apples/case), 39,500 retail caramel apples
- Official record key
food-enforcement:F-1352-2015
Official wording
Reason: CDC epidemiologists have linked an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes illness to caramel apples.
Code information: no codes are applied to product
Distribution pattern: Product was distributed wholesale to area (eastern MO and southern IL) supermarkets and other retailers. The firm also distrbuted apples via its local retail store and via the internet to consumers nationwide.
Derived failure modes
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Unknown
CDC epidemiologists have linked an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes illness to caramel apples.