I love salad! But, I do not love my salad with a side of listeria. If you have a bag or box of salad in your fridge right now, check it asap because it might have been exposed to the deadly listeria bacteria.

Packaged salads under the brand names Dole, Fresh Selections, Simple Truth, Marketside, The Little Salad Bar and President's Choice should be thrown away because they could be tainted with listeria. All salads with manufacturing codes beginning with an 'A' should be thrown away!

Several people from the tri-state are reporting that they checked and have salad in their fridge with a manufacturing code that starts with the letter A. So, check yours today!

From the CDC:

Since September 2015, CDC has been collaborating with public health officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeriamonocytogenes infections (listeriosis).

 

 

Listeria can cause a serious, life-threatening illness.

Twelve people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria have been reported from six states since July 5, 2015. The number of ill people reported from each state is as follows: Indiana (1), Massachusetts (1), Michigan (4), New Jersey (1), New York (4), and Pennsylvania (1). WGS has been performed on clinical isolates from all 12 ill people and has shown that the isolates are highly related genetically.

 

CDC recommends that consumers do not eat, restaurants do not serve, and retailers do not sell packaged salads produced at the Dole processing facility in Springfield, Ohio. These packaged salads were sold under various brand names.

 

  • Brands of packaged salads include Dole, Fresh Selections, Simple Truth, Marketside, The Little Salad Bar, and President's Choice Organics.

  • These packaged salads can be identified by the letter "A" at the beginning of the manufacturing code found on the package.

 

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