No illnesses have been reported, but symptoms of a Salmonella infection can include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. In some rare cases, the organism can get into the bloodstream and cause arterial infections, endocarditis, and arthritis.

The tomatoes were distributed in Georgia in April and are now a Class 1 recall, the FDA's most severe level that warns about possible deaths.

A tomato recall due to risk of salmonella contamination has been elevated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to its highest warning level. The FDA marked the tomato recall affecting three states as Class I,