One person has died in connection with the outbreak, the CDC says. At least 39 people have become sick and one person has died in connection with an E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Sunday.

The CDC has issued an urgent food safety alert about a major E. coli outbreak across 18 states linked to organic carrots.

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.