Products Sold At Pittsburgh Groceries Recalled Over Salmonella Risk

PITTSBURGH, PA — A food company is voluntarily recalling certain brands of a product available in many Pittsburgh groceries because of a potential salmonella risk.

Champion Foods LLC of New Boston, Michigan, is voluntarily recalling certain batches of Motor City Pizza Co. 5 Cheese Bread because they have the salmonella risk. The action follows a California Dairies, Inc. milk powder recall due to a concern of potential salmonella contamination.

Affected 5 Cheese Bread lots were distributed and sold locally at retailers such as Walmart, Target and Costco. Nationwide, they were sold at outlets such as Giant Landover, Grocery Outlet, Jewel, Kroger, Schnucks, C&S, Bozzuto’s, Brookshire Grocery, Meijer, Food City, KeHe, Lipari, Publix, Merchants Dis Hickory, PDI/Hy-Vee, River Valley, SpartanNash, Supervalu, and UNFI.

Salmonella is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Healthy people infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, the infection 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.

​No other Motor City Pizza City Co. products were recalled.