Leafy Greens Added to CDC’s Foodborne Illness Questionnaire
After a Listeria outbreak involving bagged salads produced by Dole, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now including leafy greens on food history questionnaires that are used to interview foodborne illness patients. Had leafy greens been on the questionnaire already, the outbreak may have been detected much earlier.
The contaminated bagged salads--produced by a Dole plant in Springfield, OH--caused 33 illnesses in the U.S. and Canada. The outbreak was also reportedly linked to one death in the U.S. and three deaths in Canada.