{"id":17182,"date":"2026-04-16T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:02:23","slug":"sprout-products-recalled-due-to-possible-presence-of-listeria-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17182","title":{"rendered":"Sprout products recalled due to possible presence of listeria bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food Safety NZ has announced a recall of sprout products due to the possible presence of listeria bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>The affected products &#8211; which if already purchased should be returned or thrown out &#8211; are sold at supermarkets around the country.<\/p>\n<p>They are several batches of 120-gram Southern Alp Sprouts brand alfalfa and onion sprouts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Batch J197 with a best-before date of 21 April 2026<\/li>\n<li>Batch J197 with a best-before date of 23 April 2026<\/li>\n<li>Batch J199 with a best-before date of 23 April 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pam&#8217;s onion sprouts combo (120g) which is batch J199 and has a best before date of 23 April 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Vince Arbuckle from Food Safety said the sprouts should not be eaten, as they could make people sick &#8211; and listeria infection was serious for vulnerable groups, including pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can return the products to the retailer for a full refund.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who consumed the products and were concerned about their health should seek medical advice.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Safety NZ has announced a recall of sprout products due to the possible presence of listeria bacteria. The affected products &#8211; which if already purchased should be returned or thrown out &#8211; are sold at supermarkets around the country. They are several batches of 120-gram Southern Alp Sprouts brand alfalfa and onion sprouts: Batch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17184,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions\/17184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}