BJ's Wholesale Club Announces Wellsley Farms Brand Fresh Mushrooms Not Contaminated by E.coli

26/02/07 BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. confirmed that results from two outside laboratories reveal that all Wellsley Farms brand fresh mushrooms tested negative for E. coli. On February 20, 2007, BJ's voluntarily recalled its pre-packaged Wellsley Farms brand fresh mushrooms purchased between February 11 and February 19, 2007 due to a potential health risk. As a precautionary measure, the following items were removed from sale when preliminary test results showed the possible presence of trace amounts of E. coli from one lot code of the Wellsley Farms brand sliced mushrooms:

Wellsley Farms Fresh Sliced Mushrooms, 20 oz.     SKU  016377
Wellsley Farms Fresh White Mushrooms, 24 oz.      SKU  016375
Wellsley Farms Fresh Portabella Caps, 16 oz.         SKU  016573
Wellsley Farms Fresh Baby Bella Caps, 10 oz.        SKU  016572
Wellsley Farms Fresh White Mushrooms, 10 oz.      SKU  016376

BJ's Wholesale Club issued the mushroom recall earlier this week out of an abundance of caution in order to protect its Members. The company takes food safety issues seriously and strives to makes decisions that ensure the health and safety of its Members.