WARNING: Taylor Farms Recalls Over 20 Jalapeno Products Including Guacamole, Salsa, And Dips From Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, And More Amid Salmonella Outbreak Sickening 345 People Across 27 States 🫑🦠
Taylor Farms is pulling more than a dozen jalapeno-containing products from grocery stores nationwide as part of an expanding salmonella outbreak investigation that has sickened 345 people across 27 states. The recall follows Chipotle and QDOBA’s decision last week to remove jalapenos from their restaurants, and the USDA announced over the weekend that grocery stores are also removing meat products containing jalapenos. The FDA released a list of 20 recalled products on Sunday spanning major retailers including Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Kroger, with items ranging from diced jalapenos and rice and bean burritos at Hannaford to spicy pimento cheese dip and spicy roast beef sandwiches at Kroger, along with pico de gallo salsa recalled from Stop and Shop and Hannaford.
The affected products span a wide range of brand names, including Taylor Farms, Trader Joe’s, Private Selection, and Freshness Guaranteed, with some sold unbranded. Target’s recall list includes authentic guacamole, spicy guacamole, pico de gallo, mango pico de gallo, and taco dip, while Walmart pulled mild and hot pico de gallo, Trader Joe’s recalled fiesta style salad shrimp, and Whole Foods removed salsa fresca medium, mild and spicy pico de gallo, medium salsa roja, and mild pineapple mango salsa. These products were distributed across 26 states, including Alabama, Texas, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin among others, and carry “best if used by” dates up to and including August 16, 2026. Walmart told ABC News in a statement, “safety is a top priority. When notified of recalls, we move swiftly to remove the impacted products from our stores and implement a sales block at our registers and online. We are working closely with our supplier, and customers who have this should discontinue use.”
Taylor Farms, which said last year it produces 40% of all salad kits sold in the US and supplies 265 million servings of fresh vegetables to Americans weekly, traced the contaminated jalapenos to supplier Coast Citrus Distributors, which the FDA had already linked to the broader outbreak, tracing the peppers’ origin to Sinaloa, Mexico. “Taylor Fresh Foods is no longer sourcing products from this farmer and will be filling orders from alternative suppliers,” the company said in a statement, adding that “to date, Taylor Fresh Foods is not aware of any reported illnesses linked to its products containing jalapenos.” ABC News reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services and GrubMarket, Coast Citrus’s parent company, for comment but did not receive a response. Compounding the company’s troubles, a separate cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to Taylor Farms is also expanding, with the FDA noting that potentially contaminated iceberg lettuce was distributed to Subway locations in July; Subway did not respond to a request for comment. The Consumer Federation of America has sharply criticized Taylor Farms for lacking transparency in its original recall notice regarding which brands and retailers were affected by the parasite.