Albertson's recalls store-made pasta dishes for possible Listeria contamination

SHREVEPORT, La (KTAL/KMSS) – Albertson's announced a voluntary recall of certain store-made deli items after learning that bow tie pasta noodles within the dishes were contaminated.

Albertson's Companies announced a recall on Saturday, stating that the grocery chain would be recalling five store-made deli items supplied by Fresh Creative Foods. The recall was initiated after the company reported that some items provided to Albertsons could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal p