Rodent infestation ushers to recalls at almost 400 Family Dollar shops
Key takeaways:
- The discount chain Family Dollar voluntarily recalls some of its products sent to almost 400 shops after an FDA probe found a rodent infestation at a dispersal center in Arkansas.
- In addition to the remembrance, Family Dollar on Saturday also temporarily shut the 404 impacted areas, according to The New York Times.
- The shops are located across Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
Discount chain Family Dollar voluntarily recalls some of its products shipped to almost 400 shops in the South after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration probe revealed a rodent infestation at a dispersal center in Arkansas.
In addition to the remembrance, Family Dollar on Saturday also temporarily shut the 404 impacted locations, according to the New York Times. A spokeswoman did not instantly reply to CNBC's request for comment.
The FDA stated in a release Friday that it lately inspected the facility in West Memphis, Arkansas, after getting a customer complaint. According to the agency, regulators found live and dead rodents "in various forms of decay." They also saw "rodent feces and urine, evidence of gnawing, nesting and rodent odors throughout the facility, extinct birds and bird droppings, and products kept in conditions that did not cover against contamination."
The agency stated that almost 1,100 dead rodents were found following fumigation at the facility in January 2022. Regulators also saw what seemed to be "a history of infestation," it stated. A study of the firm's internal records showed the collection of almost 2,300 rodents from March to September of the previous year.
"No one should be subjected to products stored in the kind of improper conditions that we found in this Family Dollar distribution facility."
The warning covers buys from Family Dollar shops in those six states from Jan. 1 of this year to the present.