A public health alert about HelloFresh meals: An ingredient may have listeria
The USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service has issued a public health alert about possible listeria in two ready-to-eat meals made for HelloFresh delivery service.
“FSIS expects additional affected products to be identified and will update this public health alert as more information becomes available,” the USDA said. “Consumers should check back frequently.”
Meal manufacturer FreshRealm notified the USDA that the listeria might be in the spinach used for HelloFresh’s Cheesy Pulled Pork Pepper Pasta and Unstuffed Peppers with Ground Turkey.
“FreshRealm’s food safety program detected listeria in individually quick-frozen spinach that it uses in prepared meals, supplied by Sno Pac Foods of Minnesota,” an emailed statement from FreshRealm said. “FreshRealm proactively undertook whole genome sequencing of spinach ingredient samples, and the listeria strain does not match the outbreak first reported in June 2025 or any other outbreak.
“Sno Pac Foods and their spinach supplier, Del Mar Foods, will be conducting recalls of their spinach products, and FreshRealm will follow their lead.”
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Affected pulled pork meals come from lot No. 49107 have “Est. 47718” (Indianapolis) in the USDA mark of inspection or lot No. 48840 with “Est. 2937” (Lancaster, Texas).
All the peppers with turkey meals were made in the Indianapolis facility and carry lot Nos. 50069, 50073, and 50698.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, listeria infects 1,250 people per year in the United States, 172 of which are killed by the infection. The most vulnerable to listeria’s worst effects are senior citizens and people with damaged immune systems. Pregnant women can suffer stillbirths and miscarriages from the high fevers that are a symptom of listeria. Most people suffer, along with high fevers, headaches, muscle aches, diarrhea and stomach issues.
Media and consumers with questions regarding the public health alert can contact FreshRealm’s customer service hotline at 1-888-244-1562 or customerservice@freshrealm.com.
