Cargill Value Added Meats – Retail (also referred to as CVAM-Retail) will announce a Class I Voluntary Fresh Ground Turkey Recall of approximately 35,709,675 pounds of ground turkey products August 3, 2011. The product may be linked to an outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg. All recalled products were produced at the Springdale, AR plant: USDA Establishment Number #P-963.

The outbreak that the recalled Cargill turkey products may be linked to has sickened at least 77 people in 26 states, including a person from California who died.