Weis Markets is recalling several deli salads for possible contamination with Listeria. The salads under recall are: Weis creamy coleslaw, Weis original potato salad, Weis original macaroni salad, Weis potato with egg salad, Weis Amish Macaroni, Weis Amish Potato, Weis Quality Red Potato Salad, Weis Old Fashioned Coleslaw, Weis Ham Salad, and Weis Tuna Salad. Consumers who have purchased these salads should not eat them as Listeria can cause serious illness and death.
Symptoms of a Listeria infection, called listeriosis, can take between 3 and 70 days to develop, but usually appear within a month of exposure. They include: high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. Young children, seniors and those with compromised immune systems, including those who take antacids daily and those who are undergoing chemotherapy, are also at elevated risk.
Weis Markets Inc. is based in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. It operates stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Maryland.
I purchased the Weis creamy coleslaw and Weis potato with egg salad for a camping trip we took in early October. I had diarrhea and abdominal cramping for half the camping trip and a couple of days afterwards. I just thought it was maybe the mayonnaise or something was a little too rich for my stomach. The diarrhea and abdominal cramping resolved a few days after we got home and I have had no other symptoms. However, I just got home today and there was a message on my answering machine from Weis stating that these salads are being recalled, it would have been nice to have known sooner, since this article is dated in September and it is now the end of October. I came to this site after the message told me to look here for more information. I am not sure why it took so long to notify the customers.
I’m not happy about this. I have 4 large containers of several of these salads sitting in our fridge right now. We have purchased these products for several years. This type product is not cheap. It appears the customer must take the loss.
Return them to the place of purchase for a refund. The store should take the salads back.