SAN FRANCISCO – Jamba Juice is warning customers that a potentially deadly bacterium may have contaminated its smoothies containing strawberries.
The warning applies to smoothies sold at Jamba Juice stores in Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern California between November 25 and December 1.
The company issued the warning in consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after a fruit supplier said frozen strawberries from one of its facilities tested positive for Listeria.
Jamba Juice says it halted all shipments from where the Listeria was found and disposed of all the strawberries it had from the facility.
The company says it has not received any reports of confirmed illnesses among consumers.
Listeria can cause sometimes fatal infections in young children, the elderly and others with weak immune systems.
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