Jamba Juice in consultation with the FDA is notifying the public that smoothies containing strawberries which were sold at its Jamba Juice stores in Arizona, Nevada and California between November 25 and December 1, 2006 may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Cleugh's Frozen Foods, which supplies Jamba Juice strawberries, notified the company that frozen strawberries from one of Cleugh's facilities tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
