Willard, Ohio-based company, Buurma Farms has issued a voluntary recall of its Buurma Plain (flat leaf) Parsley after testing showed possible contamination with Shiga-toxin producing E-coli.

Shiga-toxin producing E-coli is an organism that can cause food borne illness in a person who eats food contaminated with it. Symptoms of infection may include stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting. The illness primarily impacts elderly individuals, children and those with weakened immune systems.

The recalled product has a harvest date of Aug. 30, 2021 and was shipped out to various retailers in Ohio and Michigan between Aug. 31 and Sept. 3. It was also sold in 60 count crates to wholesalers in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York and South Carolina between Sept. 2 and Sept. 4. 

Retailers and wholesalers can find the product code on the orange lot code sticker on each case and at the end of the GTIN number below the bar code on the PTI label. Only plain leaf parsley with the lot code, "2A242A6" and PTI lot code, "2B243A6" is included in this recall. Retailers and wholesalers who are known to have received shipments of the recalled product are asked to pull any remaining stock from inventory.

Individual bunches of flat parsley sold to retailers for purchase by consumers would likely have a "BUURMA FARMS PLAIN PARSLEY" twist tie with a price lookup (PLU) number of "4901" and a UPC code of "33383 80125" These numbers are not unique to Buurma Farms and can be found on flat/plain parsley no matter where it is from. The wholesale distribution channels involved in the recall do not have a twist tie, but rather a plain red rubber band on the bunch. 

Production of the product has been suspended until the FDA and other involved agencies complete their investigation. Any consumer who have the product in question are asked not to consume it, but discard it.