A listeria outbreak linked to eating packaged salads produced at an OH facility has killed one person and put 11 other people into hospitals. Evidence points to packaged salads produced at a Dole processing plant in Springfield, Ohio, as the likely source of the outbreak, it said. It has affected people, including one pregnant woman, from six states: four in MI, four in NY, one in IN, one in New Jersey, one in MA and one in Pennsylvania.
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The private-label salads, which Dole produces for other brands, include Kroger’s Fresh Selections salad kits, according to the CDC.
Dole has issued a voluntary recall for all its salads showing manufacturing codes starting with the letter “A”.
Giant Food Stores LLC said Saturday it has removed packaged salads produced at a Dole facility in OH due to a strain of listeria that has made people sick.
Such routine product sampling conducted by the Ohio Department of Agriculture led to the isolation of Listeria at the Springfield, Ohio Dole processing facility.
The salads were made at Dole’s Springfield, Ohio production facility where operations have been temporarily suspended.
Dole officials told to ABC News that the withdrawal is a measure of caution, being done in collaboration with the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 22, 2016, the outbreak has been an ongoing concern of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since September 2015, with reports about the infections surfacing in July.
Of five ill people who were asked about packaged salad, all five reported eating a packaged salad.
Listeria is a food-borne bacterial illness typically found in raw vegetables and meats, as well as some soft cheeses.
The disease primarily affects pregnant women, newborn babies, older adults, and adults with weakened immune systems.
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Among its symptoms, there are fever, muscle aches, stiff neck, confusion, headache and loss of balance. People who bought these products should throw them away and wash the refrigerator drawer where they were stored, as well as any cutting boards where the greens were chopped.
