Vegetables were produced at
Springfield, Ohio Dole Processing Facility.
Epidemiologic
and laboratory evidence available at this time indicates that packaged salads
produced at the Dole processing facility in Springfield, Ohio and sold under
various brand names are the likely source of this outbreak.
State
and local health departments are interviewing ill people about the foods they
may have eaten or other exposures in the month before their illness began. Of
five ill people who were asked about packaged salad, all five (100%) reported
eating a packaged salad. Two (100%) of two ill people who specified the brand
of packaged salad eaten reported various varieties of Dole brand packaged
salad.
Twelve
people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria
have been reported from six states since July 5, 2015. The number
of ill people reported from each state is as follows: Indiana (1),
Massachusetts (1), Michigan (4), New Jersey (1), New York (4), and Pennsylvania
(1). WGS has been performed on clinical isolates from all 12 ill people and has
shown that the isolates are highly related genetically.
As
part of a routine product-sampling program, the Ohio Department of Agriculture
collected a Dole brand Field Greens packaged salad from a retail location and
isolated Listeria. This packaged salad was produced at the Springfield,
Ohio Dole processing facility. In January 2016, WGS showed that the Listeria
isolate from the packaged salad was highly related genetically to isolates from
ill people.
This information linked the illnesses to Dole brand packaged salads
produced at the Dole processing facility in Springfield, Ohio.
On
January 21, 2016, Dole reported to CDC that it
had stopped production at the processing facility in Springfield, Ohio. The
company also reported that it is withdrawing packaged salads currently on the
market that were produced at this facility. The withdrawal does not affect
other Dole products.
CDC
recommends that consumers do not eat, restaurants do not serve, and retailers
do not sell packaged salads produced at the Dole processing facility in
Springfield, Ohio. These packaged salads were sold under various brand names,
including Dole, Fresh Selections, Simple Truth, Marketside, The Little Salad
Bar, and President's Choice Organics. The packaged salads can be identified by
the letter "A" at the beginning of the manufacturing code found on the
package. At this time, there is no evidence to suggest that packaged salads
produced at other Dole processing facilities in the United States are linked to
illness.
CDC
and state and local public health partners are continuing laboratory
surveillance through PulseNet to identify additional ill people and to
interview them.Updates
will be provided when more information is available.
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