Six deaths and 25 hospitalizations have been linked to now-recalled precooked pasta meals due to a listeria outbreak.

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the outbreak was caused by numerous recalled ready-to-eat pasta products.

The outbreak was first announced in June.

“Since the last CDC case count update on September 25, 2025, a total of 7 new illnesses from 3 states have been reported, with 2 additional deaths reported,” the FDA wrote in an update, according to NBC News.

NBC News shared:

Out of the 27 people who have fallen ill from this outbreak, 25 had been hospitalized as of Thursday.

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Cases have been reported in 18 states: California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

In September, Nate’s Fine Foods announced the recall of various precooked pasta dishes, several of which are sold at supermarket chains:

  • FreshRealm’s Home Chef Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo 12.5-oz (sold at Kroger and Walmart)
  • FreshRealm’s Marketside Grilled Chicken Alfredo with Fettuccine 12.3-oz and 32.8-oz (sold at Kroger and Walmart)
  • FreshRealm’s Marketside Linguine with Beef Meatballs & Marinara Sauce 12-oz. (sold at Walmart)
  • Albertsons Companies store-made deli pasta salads (sold under multiple brand names including Albertsons, Safeway and Vons)
  • Trader Joe’s Cajun Style Blackened Chicken Breast Fettucine Alfredo 16-oz plastic tray packages
  • Demer Food Group’s Scott & Jon’s Shrimp Scampi with Linguini Bowls 9.6-oz
  • Kroger deli bowtie and penne pasta salads
  • Giant Eagle smoked mozzarella pasta salad
  • Sprouts Farmers Market smoked mozzarella pasta salad

The CDC and FDA advised consumers to check their refrigerators and freezers to throw away the recalled food items.

NPR has more:

The outbreak started in June, when listeria concerns prompted recalls of several brands of ready-to-eat chicken fettuccine Alfredo mealsmade by FreshRealm Inc. and sold under the Home Chef brand at Kroger and the Marketside brand at Walmart.

In response, FreshRealm began testing some of its pasta samples — and in mid-September, they came back positive for listeria. Further genetic testing confirmed it was the same strain of listeria that was detected in FreshRealm’s previously recalled chicken Alfredo meal, the FDA said at the time.

That discovery prompted the recall of two more products with specific use-by dates in late September and early October: Marketside Linguine With Beef Meatballs & Marinara Sauce, sold at Walmart, and Trader Joe’s Cajun Style Blackened Chicken Breast Fettuccine Alfredo.

They shared a pasta supplier, Nate’s Fine Foods. The company supplies precooked pasta and grains to the wholesale food service and restaurant industries, according to its website.

In late September, Nate’s further expanded its recall to include other batches of precooked pasta “including fettucine, linguine, and farfalle (bowtie), after a sample of linguine pasta collected and tested by FreshRealm tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes,” the FDA said.

 

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