SAN FRANCISCO Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns.

Organic food company Amys Kitchen has voluntarily recalled about 74,000 cases of frozen and prepackaged products containing spinach.

It comes after one of Amys suppliers issued a recall notice saying the Petaluma-based company may have received organic spinach possibly tainted with the bacteria that causes listeria.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials are aware of the recall.

The disease can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women

The company reports it has not had any complaints of illnesses from the products being recalled in the United States and Canada.

The recalled items include vegetable lasagna, tofu vegetable lasagna, garden vegetable lasagna, tofu scramble, enchilada verde meal, spinach pizza, brown rice and vegetables owl, stuffed pasta shells bowl, gluten-free tofu scramble and the breakfast wrap.

Rochester-based Wegmans Food Markets is recalling roughly 12,540 packages of Wegmans organic spinach due to possible contamination with listeria. The 12-ounce product was sold in the frozen food department of the companys 85 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts between Jan. 27, and March 21. This product is supplied to Wegmans by Twin City Foods in Stanwood, Washington. A representative from that company said he would have comment later Tuesday.

On Monday, Carmel Food Group issued a voluntary recall of certain Rising Moon Organics frozen ravioli items over the same concern.

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PETALLUMA, Calif. --

Organic food company Amy's Kitchen has voluntarily recalled about 74,000 cases of frozen and prepackaged products containing spinach.

It comes after one of Amy's suppliers issued a recall notice saying the Petaluma-based company may have received organic spinach possibly tainted with the bacteria that causes listeria.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials are aware of the recall.

The disease can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women

The company reports it has not had any complaints of illnesses from the products being recalled in the United States and Canada.

The recalled items include vegetable lasagna, tofu vegetable lasagna, garden vegetable lasagna, tofu scramble, enchilada verde meal, spinach pizza, brown rice and vegetables owl, stuffed pasta shells bowl, gluten-free tofu scramble and the breakfast wrap.

Rochester-based Wegmans Food Markets is recalling roughly 12,540 packages of Wegmans organic spinach due to possible contamination with listeria. The 12-ounce product was sold in the frozen food department of the company's 85 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts between Jan. 27, and March 21. This product is supplied to Wegmans by Twin City Foods in Stanwood, Wash. A representative from that company was not immediately available for comment.

On Monday, Carmel Food Group today issued a voluntary recall of certain Rising Moon Organics frozen ravioli items over the same concern.

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3 organic food companies issue recalls over listeria linked to frozen spinach

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns.

Organic food company Amy's Kitchen has voluntarily recalled about 74,000 cases of frozen and prepackaged products containing spinach.

It comes after one of Amy's suppliers issued a recall notice saying the Petaluma-based company may have received organic spinach possibly tainted with the bacteria that causes listeria.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials are aware of the recall.

The disease can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and those with weakened immune systems.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms including high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women

The company reports it has not had any complaints of illnesses from the products being recalled in the United States and Canada.

The recalled items include Amy's Vegetable Lasagna, Tofu Vegetable Lasagna, Garden Vegetable Lasagna, Gluten Free Dairy Free Vegetable Lasagna, Tofu Scramble, Enchilada Verde Whole Meal, Spinach Pizza, Brown Rice and Vegetables Bowl, Stuffed Pasta Shells Bowl and Gluten Free Tofu Scramble Breakfast Wrap.

Rochester, New York-based Wegmans Food Markets is recalling roughly 12,540 packages of Wegmans organic spinach due to possible contamination with listeria. The 12-ounce product was sold in the frozen food department of the company's 85 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts between Jan. 27, and March 21. This product is supplied to Wegmans by Twin City Foods in Stanwood, Washington. A representative from that company said he would have comment later Tuesday.

On Monday, Carmel Food Group today issued a voluntary recall of certain Rising Moon Organics frozen ravioli items over the same concern. The Hayward-based company did not say how many packages or cases of the ravioli were produced with the ingredient in question or how widespread their recall is.

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Story highlights Amy's Kitchen says a supplier reported that organic spinach could contain listeria The food company says it is voluntarily recalling nearly 74,000 cases of products The recall, the company says, is "out of an abundance of caution"

In a statement released through the Food and Drug Administration on Sunday, Amy's Kitchen said that it was voluntarily recalling the products after learning from one of its suppliers that it may have received organic spinach that was possibly contaminated with listeria monocytogenes.

The California-based organic and natural food company said it wasn't aware of any reports of illness connected with its products, but was recalling them "out of an abundance of caution."

The recalled products, which are listed on the FDA's website and were distributed throughout the United States and Canada, include multiple types of vegetable lasagna, tofu scrambles, spinach pizza, enchiladas, brown rice and vegetable bowls and stuffed pasta shells.

Listeriosis, a serious infection caused by eating food contaminated with listeria, primarily affects the elderly, pregnant women, newborns and people with weakened immune systems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the United States, an estimated 1,600 people become seriously ill each year; approximately 16% of these illnesses result in death. Cervical infections caused by listeriosis in pregnant women may result in spontaneous abortion during the second or third trimesters or stillbirth.

CNN's Jacque Wilson contributed to this report.

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If you can't lick them, buy them -- and build them up.

That's how giant food makers are responding to competitors specializing in "natural" and organic food. They're acquiring them. General Mills now owns Annie's; Campbell's Soup, Plum; Coca-Cola, Honest Tea; Kellogg, Kashi.

As the big food companies go natural and organic, the market evolves. The giants are introducing new products aimed at a wider audience. What was once a small, boutique business is becoming bigger and more segmented, with offerings for a variety of tastes.

For a glimpse of these changes, check out this intriguing Wall Street Journal story, "Does Organic Food Taste as Virtuous If It Goes Mass Market?" (http://tiny.cc/). The story describes:

--Honest Tea learning, while a unit of Coke, that it can attract a broader clientele by adding sugar to its beverages, even as its sugar-free green tea continues to sell best at stores like Whole Foods;

--Plum, armed with Campbell's research on consumer tastes in soup, cutting up the kale and spinach finer to avoid scaring kids away;

--Kashi coming under social-media attack for using genetically engineered ingredients and promising, after losing $200 million in sales over five years, to get rid of them;

--Annie's discovering that it can't sell an organic frozen pizza for $9 but can sell frozen mini pizza bagels and poppers for $4 a box;

--A mother in Phoenix being taught by her three-year-old that "Just because it says organic doesn't mean it tastes good."

Amid all the changes, the article hints, some things never change. Taste and price will always rank high in what the public expects of food. And big business will always think big. When Honest Tea presented its growth plans to Coke last year, the response was: "Great. How do we double or triple this?"

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