Dole, President’s Choice, Fresh Express salad kits recalled due to possible Listeria
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Some salad kits made by Dole, President's Choice and Fresh Express are the latest products to be recalled due to possible Listeria contamination linked to an outbreak in the U.S.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has added more salad kits to a recall that started last week due to possible Listeria contamination.
Listeria is a bacteria that can act as a parasite in its host and can cause listeriosis. Listeria can live in a food plant for several years.
The latest products to be recalled are southwest salad kits made by Dole and President’s Choice, as well as Dole’s Avocado Ranch Chop Kit, distributed nationally.
Some salad kits made by Dole, President’s Choice and Fresh Express are the latest products to be recalled due to possible Listeria contamination.
Other products already recalled last week include Rojo’s Black Bean 6 Layer dip and President’s Choice and Taylor Farms Mexican-style Street Corn Salad kits.
Those salad kits were distributed across Canada, while the dip is available in Ontario, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Quebec.
The affected products all include cheese made by Rizo-López Foods that is suspected to be the source of a Listeria outbreak in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated the outbreak in 2017 and 2021 and identified some cheeses as the source of the outbreak but there wasn’t enough information to target a specific brand, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
