Friday, August 26, 2016

Four deaths linked to Dole salads



The United States Centres for Disease Control says four people died and 33 people were sickened, many requiring hospital treatment, after eating Dole salads.

It was the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that identified Dole’s processing centre at Springfield, Ill., as the source of Listeria monocytogenes.

The CFIA picked up 55 samples of 12 different Dole salads from retail stores in January and found the same strain of Listeria that had sickened 19 people in the United States and 14 in Canada. At that point one person had died.

The CFIA issued a recall of all Dole salads from the Springfield plant on Jan. 22.

The earliest case of Listeria of the same strain involved in the recall was July 15, 2015, in the United States.

There have been reports that Dole’s own testing identified Listeria in the processing plant as early as March, 2015.


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