According to several federal health agencies , there is an ongoing prepared pasta recall which has now caused six deaths and more than 25 hospitalizations, with seemingly no end in sight.
Fox Business reports that this particular listeria outbreak stems back to March of 2025, when the USDA found the bacteria in a random sample of FreshRealm chicken fettuccine alfredo.
FreshRealm then discovered the same strain of bacteria in some of their dishes that used their linguini.
Here's the major issue, though: FreshRealm doesn't supply their dishes to the public.
instead, they supply their dishes and their ingredients to grocery stores and other food outlets, including Nate's Fine Foods Inc., which then repackage them into new prepared dishes.
There are several major grocery outlets where

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