The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has linked a packaged salad at a Dole processing plant to a recent listeria outbreak. So far, 12 people have been hospitalized and one person has died.
Dole reported that it had ceased all production at the Springfield-based facility. Additionally, Dole is pulling all packaged salads that were produced at that facility from the market. The salads were sold under the Dole name and private label brands such as Simple Truth (Kroger’s natural/organic label).
The Public Health Agency of Canada has reported that an outbreak of the same listeria strain had resulted in seven people being hospitalized as well as one death.
