Dole salad recalled after listeria kills 1, sickens 12

One person is dead and 11 people are hospitalized after the CDC says listeria is discovered in packaged salad. The outbreak is connected to salads produced at their processing facility in Springfield, Ohio.

The manufacturing code begins with the letter “A“. The company ceased all production at that plant Friday and began withdrawing all products from stores, including major retailers like WalMart and Meijer. And the agency recently confirmed that five of the people who got sick reported eating packaged salad, and two of them specified that they ate Dole brand packaged salad.

As part of a routine product-sampling program, the Ohio Department of Agriculture collected a Dole-brand Field Greens packaged salad from a retail location and isolated Listeria.

Listeria, known by its scientific name of Listeria monocytogenes, is the bacterium that causes listeriosis, an infection that affects the gastrointestinal tract.

Symptoms of listeria include nausea, fever, diarrhea, and muscle aches. This suspension and withdrawal is being performed voluntarily by Dole out of an abundance of caution, in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control.

People who develop symptoms of listeriosis should tell a healthcare provider about eating that product. As we reported a few years back, the immune system of healthy people can protect against pathogens. The person who died lived in Macomb County in that state.

The Springfield News-Sun will continue to provide unmatched coverage concerning an outbreak of listeria linked to a Dole facility in Springfield.

Though the lettuce was sold to many states, not all of these areas have seen physical illness from the listeria outbreak, reports Tech Times. Listeriosis can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, premature labor, or a serious infection in the newborn baby, even though the pregnant woman only has a mild, flu-like illness.

Dole is updating consumers on its Facebook page with toll-free numbers to call for more information.