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The Quaker Oats Company on Friday issued a recall of dozens of its granola bar and cereal products for potential salmonella contamination, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Illinois, Indiana, and Maryland.
- Illinois: The Quaker Oats Company on Friday issued a recall of dozens of its granola bar and cereal products for potential salmonella contamination, though the company noted it has "received no confirmed reports of illness related to the products covered by this recall." Any consumers who purchased the products, which were sold at stores including Costco Wholesale, Walmart, Kroger, and Target, should "dispose of them," Quaker said. According to Quaker, salmonella bacteria can "cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems." Healthy people infected with the bacteria typically experience fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. (Tyko, Axios, 12/16)
- Indiana: VillageMD announced Friday it plans to close all 12 of its Village Medical practices throughout Indiana, effective Jan. 19, as part of a larger cost-cutting plan from Walgreens that was announced in October. That plan includes closing 60 VillageMD clinics in five markets, as Walgreens seeks $1 billion in savings. "We are committed to helping our teams during this transition and we are working diligently to care for our patients during this transition," a spokesperson for VillageMD said. "This includes offering care to them during this transition and the resources they need to access care and their medical records." (Hudson, Modern Healthcare, 12/15)
- Maryland: Cinnamon applesauce pouches that have sickened more than 60 children under the age of six in the United States with lead poisoning may have been purposefully contaminated, according to Jim Jones, FDA's deputy commissioner for human foods. "We're still in the midst of our investigation," Jones said. "But so far all of the signals we're getting lead to an intentional act on the part of someone in the supply chain and we're trying to sort of figure that out." The contaminated pouches were sold under three brands: Weis, WanaBana, and Schnucks, and all were linked to a manufacturing facility in Ecuador, which is being investigated by FDA. "My instinct is they didn't think this product was going to end up in a country with a robust regulatory process," Jones said. "They thought it was going to end up in places that did not have the ability to detect something like this." (Brown/Hill, Politico, 12/14)
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