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News November 6, 2007
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Pizza company recalls products

Totino's and Jeno's has announced a voluntary recall of frozen pizzas with pepperoni toppings because of possible contamination in the pepperoni topping with E.coli.

The recall affects approximately 414,000 cases of pizza product currently in stores and all similar products in consumers' freezers.
Products in the recall include:
Totino's:
Party Supreme, SKU 42800-10700
Three Meat, SKU 42800-10800
Pepperoni, SKU 42800-11400
Pepperoni, SKU 48500-92114
Classic Pepperoni, SKU 42800-11402
Pepperoni Trio, SKU 42800-72157
Party Combo, SKU 42800-11600
Combo, SKU 42800-92116
Jeno's:

Crisp 'n Tasty Supreme, SKU 35300-00561
Crisp 'n Tasty Pepperoni, SKU 35300-00572
Crisp 'n Tasty Combo, SKU 35300-00576

The pizza products were distributed to retail establishments nationwide.

The potential problem was uncovered by state and federal authorities investigating 21 occurrences of E.coli-related illnesses in 10 states. Approximately half of the individuals who became ill were hospitalized as a result. The earliest case reported to state authorities occurred in July, and the latest case reported occurred Oct. 10.

Consumers can contact Totino's/Jeno's for product replacement by clipping the UPC (bar code) symbol from each box and sending their UPC along with name and address to: Totino's/Jeno's, P.O. Box 200- Pizza, Minneapolis, MN 55440-0200.

The product itself should be thrown away.


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