The FDA has sent a warning letter dated September 25, 2020 to Dole Fresh Vegetables at 2959 Salinas Highway in Monterey, California, after failure to comply with preventive controls of thee Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation. The product, HEB Tuscan Herb Chopped Salad Kit, was recalled … Read more
On March 10, 2016, Food Poisoning Bulletin broke the story that Dole knew about Listeria contamination in its plant long before this year’s deadly listeriosis outbreak that was linked to its salad products. Carla Gillespie submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Food and Drug Administration in February 2016, asking for reports of inspections … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the Dole Listeria outbreak, according to a statement on the company’s website. Listeria outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada were linked to salads produced at the company’s plant in Springfield, Ohio. Thirty three people were sickened between July 2015 and January 2016, four people died. … Read more
Years before salads produced at Dole’s plant in Springfield, Ohio were linked to Listeria monocytogenes outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada, the company found Listeria there, FDA inspection records show. One of the records, obtained by Food Poisoning Bulletin through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, shows the company found Listeria in the plant in early … Read more
Since 2012, salads made by Dole have been recalled for Listeria four times and for Salmonella once. The current recall, for all salads with product codes beginning with the letter “A”, sold under the following names: Dole, Fresh Selections, Simple Truth, Marketside, The Little Salad Bar, and President’s Choice. The letter “A’ in the product … Read more
The FDA has listed salad products that have been recalled in the ongoing Dole prepackaged salad Listeria monocytogenes outbreak. This list of salads is not necessarily complete. Consumers need to know that any salads that have a manufacturing code beginning with the letter “A” were produced at the Dole plant in Ohio and have been … Read more
Food Poisoning Bulletin has visited the web sites of the major grocery stores around the country to see which of them have issued recalls for the Dole prepackaged salads linked to a deadly Listeria monocytogenes outbreak. These recall notices not only will help consumers determine if they purchased the recalled products, but they also help … Read more
Kroger is pulling Dole, Simple Truth and Fresh Selections salads from store shelves after salads made at a Dole facility in Springfield, Ohio were linked to a Listeria outbreak. Twelve people have been sickened in this outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Stores that carried salads made at the facility … Read more
At least four people in New York state have been sickened with Listeria monocytogenes food poisoning in an outbreak associated with eating certain bagged salads. Whole genome sequencing performed on clinical isolates from all ill persons showed that the bacteria are highly genetically related to each other. All four sickened in that state have been … Read more
Last week, the Public Health Agency of Canada issued a press release stating that an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes food poisoning had sickened at least 7 people in five provinces. On Friday, January 22, 2016, the CDC in the United States said that there is a Listeria outbreak in that country linked to Dole prepackaged … Read more