Before you serve up a veggie tray to your holiday guests, start a batch of roasted carrot soup, or bake a carrot cake, check your carrots. That’s because there is a massive recall underway of baby carrots and organic whole carrots sold at grocery stores across the South and the rest of the country.

A recall of organic, bagged whole and baby carrots sold at Trader Joe's, Publix, Wegmans and other retailers around the country has been linked to an E. coli outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. E. coli is a bacteria that can cause serious illness when consumed by certain populations.

The outbreak has been tied to multiple brands of recalled organic carrots sold by Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, Target, Kroger, Food Lion and Publix, among others, officials said.