A Michigan-based company is pulling some of its popular frozen cheese breads from store shelves after discovering they might contain a bonus ingredient nobody asked for: salmonella.
The Champion Foods recall covers select batches of Motor City Pizza Co. 5 Cheese Bread and comes on the heels of a California Dairies, Inc. milk powder recall for the same reason. Apparently the five-cheese sauce blend got a little too authentic.
Salmonella, for those lucky enough not to have met it, typically causes nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain in healthy people. In children and those with weakened immune systems, it can be fatal. In rare cases, the bacteria can spread into blood, bones, urine, and organs - essentially a road trip no one wants to take, according to the CDC.
The affected breads were sold nationwide in single and double packs at a staggering number of stores including Costco, Walmart, Giant Landover, Grocery Outlet, Jewel, Kroger, Schnucks, Target, C&S, Bozzuto's, Brookshire Grocery, Meijer, Food City, KeHe, Lipari, Publix, Merchants Dis Hickory, PDI/Hy-Vee, River Valley, SpartanNash, Supervalu, and UNFI. Basically, if you bought frozen cheese bread anywhere in America, it might be time to check the freezer.
As of Monday, Champion Foods says it hasn't received any reports of illness, and routine testing has been negative. But they're recalling anyway "out of an abundance of caution" - which is corporate speak for "we'd rather not get sued."
Customers who bought an affected item can contact Champion Foods at info@motorcitypizzacompany.com for more information, or just, you know, skip the cheese bread until further notice.