Shares of SunOpta Inc. STKL eased 0.1% in premarket trading Wednesday, after the food and beverage company said its Sunrise Growers Inc. subsidiary recalled of some frozen fruit products due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled fruit products included some mixed fruit, cherries and mango chunk products sold at Walmart from Jan. 19 to June 13; some 365 pineapple chunks and fruit medley products sold at Whole Foods from Nov. 1 to June 21; some tropical fruit blends products sold at Traders Joe’s from March 28 to April 11 and some cherries and fruit blend, mixed fruit, strawberry blend and mango chunks products sold at Target from Oct. 14 to May 22 and tropical blend products sold at Aldi from Oct. 11 to May 22. SunOpta said there have been not illnesses associated with the recall to date. SunOpta’s stock has dropped 15.2% year to date through Tuesday while the S&P 500 SPX has advanced 14.3%.
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