Dole Announces Recall of 72 Salads in U.S., Canada Due to Listeria Fears

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Dole Iceberg Lettuce Recall Overview:

• Who: Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc. is voluntarily recalling 72 Dole-branded and private label packaged salads that contain iceberg lettuce.
• Why: The salads, which were processed at its Springfield, Ohio, and Soledad, California, production facilities, reportedly contain a possible health risk from Listeria monocytogenes.
• Where: The recalled products were sold across the United States and in Canada.

Check your fridge: Dole is recalling 72 packaged salads because they may contain the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, which can cause serious infections. 

On Jan. 7, Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc. issued a voluntary recall of 72 Dole-branded and private label packaged salads that were processed at its Springfield, Ohio, and Soledad, California, production facilities.

The recalled salads all contain iceberg lettuce that could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the company said. 

“Consumers who still have any of these products in their refrigerators are urged not to consume the product and to discard it immediately,” Dole said in the recall.

The company is not currently facing legal action over the recall, but Top Class Actions follows recalls closely as they sometimes end in class action lawsuits.

Equipment Used To Harvest Lettuce Found To Contain Listeria

The salads were distributed in the states of Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, North Carolina, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin and in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Click here for a full list of the recalled salads. 

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. 

The recall was issued after equipment used to harvest the iceberg lettuce was tested by Dole and found to contain Listeria monocytogenes.

This recall comes after ​​Dole Fresh Vegetables recalled all of its Dole-branded and private label salads processed at two of its facilities and distributed across 23 states in December due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

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