FDA's Thursday outbreak record links E. coli O145:H28 infections to GreenWise Organic IQF frozen blueberries in 10-ounce bags, lot 60401, with a best-by date of February 9, 2028. [1]

Publix distributed the bags in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, and the 12 illnesses in Florida and Georgia include four hospitalizations and no deaths; those identifiers define a narrower warning than one covering frozen fruit generally. [1]

Consumers should discard or return the named lot, clean containers and surfaces the berries touched, and discard berries repacked without the original label because their lot cannot be checked, while FDA's recall index remains the place to check for later expansion. [2]

The available recall coverage is FDA's primary outbreak notice and index rather than a verified independent media report, and Thursday's frozen-food searches found no verified X post tied to the lot, so neither the cited coverage nor documented social evidence supports suspicion of every freezer bag.

The household answer remains one brand, one package size, one lot, one best-by date and eight states, requiring shoppers to check the original package, discard or return lot 60401 if it matches, clean what it touched, and keep other frozen blueberries unless FDA later expands the warning so that households reduce both exposure and needless waste.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago