Packaged salad products have been recalled from 19 states as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating a listeria outbreak linked to Fresh Express packaged salad that has killed at least one person, the agency said in a press release Tuesday. The recalled products include all use-by-date fresh salad packages with the product codes of Z324 through Z350.
The move came shortly after the Michigan Department of Agriculture conducted a random sample from Fresh Express’ Streamwood, Illinois, factory and found one packaged salad containing the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.
Product recalls were made in the following states: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Maine, Indiana, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa and Massachusetts.
The FDA also announced they were investigating a “multistate outbreak” linked to Fresh Express salad products.
Ten people infected with the outbreak strain have been reported from eight states while one person has died, according to the FDA.
Read the statement below.
FDA and @CDCgov, in collaboration with state and local partners, are investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to Fresh Express packaged salad. https://t.co/HWkGESdnHk pic.twitter.com/DkFXeFEH7L
— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) December 21, 2021
