Oregon-based Reser’s Fine Foods Inc. has recently recalled salad products because of the Listeria risk posed by an outsourced ingredient. Now the company has its own problems with the stubborn bacteria at a manufacturing facility in North Carolina. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told company president and CEO Mark Reser in a July 1 warning letter that the facility in Halifax, NC, which produces refrigerated, ready-to-eat (RTE) salads, was inspected from Nov. 3-10, 2015, and that Listeria was found in several places within the plant.
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