Dole Salads Recalled Over Listeria Outbreak, So Pregnant Ladies Need to Check Their Refrigerators
According to the CDC, pregnant women are 10 times more likely to get Listeriosis than the general population, and Listeriosis is a lot more dangerous for pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems. Listeriosis can cause miscarriage or stillbirth, preterm labor, and serious illness or death in newborns.
The Daily Meal reports that 12 people in six different states were sickened, and one died, of Listeriosis since July. The source of the outbreak was reportedly only just traced back to a production facility in Ohio, where packaged salads were being produced. According to Yahoo News, five of the victims say they ate packaged salads before falling ill, and at least two of those specified that they’d eaten Dole brand salads. Dole has recalled all packaged salads produced at the Ohio facility implicated in the outbreak.
Customers with bagged salads by Dole, Fresh Selections, Simple Truth, Marketside, The Little Salad Bar, or President’s Choice Organics should check the manufacturing code on the packages. If the code starts with “A,” throw it away.
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