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Back in October of 2017, Mann Packing of Salinas, California, announced a recall of some of their packaged vegetable products due to concerns over possible listeria-related contamination: As noted at the time, the recall came in response to a single positive result found on one [product] during random sampling by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and no wider outbreak of listeria was reported in connection with Mann vegetable products. Unfortunately, long after all the products associated with that October 2017 recall had been removed from store shelves, multiple web sites continued to publish and propagate outdated warnings — often lengthy and full of detail — without including any reference to dates, leaving many consumers believing that the recall was current and ongoing. Such web sites also employed inaccurate and sensationalized headlines in conjunction with this information, misleadingly suggesting that a related nationwide listeria outbreak was underway: This item is another example of a zombie recall: a consumer product alert that has continued to be misleadingly published and circulated online long after it ceased to be of timely relevance.
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