If you have a yellow bag of Walmart’s bettergoods lemon alfredo fettuccine in the freezer, the lot code no longer matters. Gias Foods widened its Listeria recall on October 1 to cover every lot of the product, after the original notice in September had singled out just two. Nobody has gotten sick, which is the good news, but the practical problem has shifted from store shelves to home freezers.

What is recalled now

Gias Foods, Inc. of New York, NY is recalling its bettergoods Authentic Italian Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Here is the product you are looking for:

Brand: bettergoods (Walmart’s own label)
Product: Authentic Italian Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine, frozen
Package: 22 oz, yellow plastic bag
UPC: 194346442706
Lot codes affected: all of them
Where it was sold: Walmart stores nationwide

No illnesses have been reported to date. The problem turned up through routine finished-product sampling by the Washington State Department of Agriculture and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, not through anyone falling ill.

Why the recall got bigger instead of going away

The first version of this recall, announced in September, covered two lots: L6079C and L6080C, with best-by dates of September 19 and September 20, 2027. That is the normal shape of a recall. A sample comes back positive, the company traces it to a production run, and the run gets pulled.

When a company comes back two weeks later and drops the lot restriction entirely, it usually means the investigation could not draw a clean line around which batches were affected. Rather than keep guessing, Gias pulled all of it. I would rather see a company overcorrect here than split hairs over date codes, but it does make the consumer side messier: there is no number to check, so any bag of this specific product is in scope.

What the Listeria risk actually means

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, older adults, pregnant people and anyone with a weakened immune system. In otherwise healthy adults it more often shows up as short-term fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. In pregnancy it can cause miscarriage and stillbirth, which is why the warnings are worded as strongly as they are.

The freezer detail people get wrong

Freezing does not kill Listeria. It pauses it. A bag that has been sitting in your freezer since August is not safer than one bought last week, and that is exactly why a frozen-food recall can stay relevant for months after the product leaves the shelf. Thorough cooking does kill the bacteria, but the FDA’s instruction here is to return the product, not to cook it hotter and hope you hit the right temperature in the middle of a frozen pasta block. Cross-contamination in the sink while you open the bag is its own risk.

What to do with the bag in your freezer

Check the UPC, not the date. 194346442706 on a 22 oz yellow bag is the one.
Take it back to Walmart for a full refund. You do not need the receipt-level detail of a lot code anymore, because every lot is covered.
If you would rather just bin it, seal the bag before it goes in the trash and wipe down the freezer shelf and anything it was touching.
Questions for the company: Gias Foods is handling inquiries at [email protected].
If you ate it and feel unwell, call your doctor and say you may have been exposed to Listeria. Symptoms can take weeks to appear, so mention it even if the meal feels like old news.

Lemon alfredo is honestly easier to make than to buy

Here is my slightly unhelpful opinion: this is one of the few freezer meals I never understood buying in the first place. Lemon alfredo is cream, parmesan, garlic, lemon zest and pasta water. It is a fifteen-minute sauce that lives or dies on the zest going in off the heat, which is the one thing a frozen version cannot do well, because the brightness cooks off and you are left with a sort of flat creamy lemon drop.

My creamy lemon pasta is the closest match to what is in that bag, and it comes together in the time the frozen one takes to heat through. If you want it heavier and more casserole-shaped for a weeknight, the cheesy garlic bread chicken alfredo bake does the job with a lot more to show for it. One tip from doing this too many times: hold back a little pasta water and add the lemon juice last, off the burner, or the acid will split the cream and you will spend five minutes trying to rescue it.