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Amys Kitchen, a best-selling natural and organic food brand, announced a voluntary recall today of more than 73,000 cases of its products over worries of possible listeria contamination, the company said in a statement today.

This recall is based on a recall notice from one of Amy's organic spinach suppliers that Amy's may have received organic spinach with the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes, the company said is a statement to ABC News, also noting that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not ask for the recall but was aware of it.

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Listeria is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems, said Kirsten Larson, manager of the food safety program for the Association of Public Health Laboratories. Symptoms include high fever, headache and abdominal distress, she said.

The Listeria bacteria is responsible for more than 1,600 illness and 260 deaths each year in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infection can also cause miscarriage and still births among pregnant women.

"The riskiest foods for infection include deli meats, unpasteurized dairy products, produce and prepared foods," Larson said.

Courtesy FDA

PHOTO: Amy's Kitchen is recalling more than 73,000 cases of food due to possible listeria contamination.

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The author has posted comments on this articleJohn Sarkar, TNN | Mar 23, 2015, 06.06AM IST NEW DELHI: You may soon be able to buy organic fruits and vegetables at the price of regular produce or even less. Ethnic lifestyle retailer Fabindia, known for its apparel and furniture, is now preparing to sell organic fruits and vegetables online. Plans are afoot to establish a supply chain that can deliver fresh produce directly from farmers to households by cutting off middlemen.

A study commissioned by Fabindia shows that by the time some items such as chilies and cauliflowers arrive at markets in Delhi, their prices go up by around 100% or more. For instance, a kilogram of carrots that a farmer sells for around Rs 27 is marked up to Rs 60 at Azadpur Sabzi Mandi and Rs 80 when it finally reaches INA Market in Delhi.

Fabindia MD William Bissell said there is a growing concern among the Indian middle-class about food contamination. "There is no control over water contamination, excessive use of herbicide and the way vegetables are processed. I have seen bananas being ripened with gas. Organic farming provides an opportunity to reduce food arbitrage by around 30% or more," he said.

In 2013, Fabindia had acquired a 40% stake in Organic India, a Lucknow-based organic food and supplements firm and the maker of Tulsi Tea.

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GREELEY, Colo. (AP) Were it not for the grain silos, Hereford might flash across the rear view mirror, passing entirely unnoticed by most traveling motorists.

The unincorporated Weld County community sits just 2 miles south of the Wyoming state line on the northern edge of the Pawnee National Grassland. To find its exact location takes some planning Hereford is not listed on the map, nor are its neighboring farm communities.

Rebecca Talmadge, co-owner of S T Organics, estimates between 15 and 20 people call her community home.

The grain silos that mark the town's skyline belong to Talmadge and her family.

While Hereford may appear sleepy to the naked eye, its grain elevator has a far-reaching impact on the organic food market both locally and nationally.

Organic grain farmers turn to Talmadge's elevator to store their wheat, barley, oats and corn harvested in northern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming and western Nebraska. Much of this grain will eventually land on grocery store shelves, providing flour for organic breads and feed for organically produced milk.

When S T Organics took over the community's grain elevator in 2007, the Talmadges found that while many producers in the area were already farming organically, they struggled to find storage options and get certified.

The company now provides a once-elusive resource for area farmers to both store their grain and submit consultations on getting organic certification.

"The ones that didn't have storage options, they basically didn't certify organic, even though they were farming organically anyway. They just didn't do the paperwork and sold it on the conventional market," Talmadge said. "So they were losing financially because of the differences in the commodity prices."

While an organic farmer cannot guarantee notably higher prices every season, organic grains typically yield a higher market price than their conventional counterparts.

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