At least 10 people in the U.S. got sick from listeria bacteria in some ready-to-eat food. A company is taking back some food products because of this, government officials said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that officials are looking into an illness linked to food from a company in California. The FDA said ten people got sick and had to go to the hospital after eating the food.

The agency said the products were sold in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Washington. You could buy them in places like shops, hospitals, hotels, small shops, airports, and on airplanes.

Usually, if you get sick from Listeria, you will start to feel bad in the first two weeks after eating food with the bacteria. If you are not very sick, you might have a fever, your muscles might hurt, you might feel sick to your stomach, feel tired, throw up, or have diarrhea. If you are more sick, you could have a headache, a stiff neck, feel confused, have trouble standing straight, or have fits.

Government workers said they started looking into why people were getting sick last year, but they didn't have enough proof to find the source of the sickness. They said they started looking into it again in April. This was because food safety workers found a type of bacteria called listeria in food from a company called Fresh & Ready Foods. This bacteria was the same type that made people sick.

Fresh & Ready Foods said in a news story that they quickly fixed the problem by taking away some equipment.

The FDA found that 6 out of 10 sick people were in the hospital before they got sick with listeria. The FDA found that food from Fresh & Ready Foods was given in at least 3 hospitals where the sick people had been.

The Centers for Disease Control said they collected test samples from sick people between December 2023 and September 2024.

Fresh & Ready is taking back some of its products. Look for the "use by" dates between April 22 and May 19 this year. The products have names like Fresh & Ready Foods, City Point Market Fresh Food to Go, and Fresh Take Crave Away.