Tim's Cascade Snacks Recalls Several Products: Salmonella Risk

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TIM’S CASCADE SNACKS RECALLS ‘HAWAIIAN® KETTLE STYLE POTATO CHIPS – SWEET MAUI ONION’ AND ‘HAWAIIAN – SWEET MAUI ONION RINGS’ BECAUSE OF POSSIBLE HEALTH RISK

CONTACT:
MICHELLE WEESE, 
973-541-8620

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MARCH 02, 2010 – OUT OF REGARD AND CONCERN FOR OUR CONSUMERS, TIM’S CASCADE SNACKS OF ALGONA, WASHINGTON IS RECALLING HAWAIIANÂ KETTLE STYLE POTATO CHIPS – SWEET MAUI ONION™ AND HAWAIIAN – SWEET MAUI ONION RINGS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE CONTAMINATED WITH SALMONELLA, AN ORGANISM WHICH CAN CAUSE SERIOUS AND SOMETIMES FATAL INFECTIONS IN YOUNG CHILDREN, FRAIL OR ELDERLY PEOPLE, AND OTHERS WITH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. HEALTHY PERSONS INFECTED WITH SALMONELLA OFTEN EXPERIENCE FEVER, DIARRHEA (WHICH MAY BE BLOODY), NAUSEA, VOMITING AND ABDOMINAL PAIN. IN RARE CIRCUMSTANCES, INFECTION WITH SALMONELLA CAN RESULT IN THE ORGANISM GETTING INTO THE BLOODSTREAM AND PRODUCING MORE SEVERE ILLNESSES SUCH AS ARTERIAL INFECTIONS (I.E., INFECTED ANEURYSMS), ENDOCARDITIS AND ARTHRITIS.

‘HAWAIIAN® KETTLE STYLE POTATO CHIPS- SWEET MAUI ONION’ AND ‘HAWAIIAN- SWEET MAUI ONION RINGS’ WERE DISTRIBUTED NATIONWIDE AND IN CANADA THROUGH RETAIL STORES, DISTRIBUTORS, DIRECT DELIVERY AND INTERNET SALES. THESE PRODUCTS WERE SOLD AS INDIVIDUAL BAGS AND AS COMPONENTS OF PACKS, INCLUDING VARIETY PACKS. NO OTHER ‘HAWAIIAN’ PRODUCTS ARE INVOLVED IN THIS RECALL.

ONLY THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS ARE BEING RECALLED:

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