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Dole recalls fresh, packaged spinach salads in Canada for Listeria risk

By News Desk on August 9, 2018

Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. is recalling an undisclosed amount of baby spinach packaged salad because Canadian officials found Listeria monocytogenes contamination in a sample.

The company distributed the implicated fresh spinach product to New Brunswick,…
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Biofilms with Listeria pose persistent threat in food production

By News Desk on June 19, 2017

It doesn’t matter how big or influential a company is, bacteria and biofilms don’t discriminate between multinationals like Dole with its tens of thousands of employees and operations like Hudson Valley Farms, where 10 or…
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CDC adds salad to Listeria questionnaire in wake of outbreak

By Coral Beach on August 26, 2016

The investigation into a multi-year, multi-state listeriosis outbreak traced to package salads from Dole might have yielded results several months earlier had sick people been asked if they had eaten leafy greens, according to a…
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Letter From the Editor: The New Normal

By Dan Flynn on May 22, 2016

Not so long ago, errant food industry managers and executives did not have to worry about going to jail. But they do now. The government once did not have any intentions, plans or strategies for…
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Publisher’s Platform: Will the Justice Department look at Dole’s history of recalls and outbreaks?

By Bill Marler on May 2, 2016

dole-lettuce-recall In a press release last week Dole announced that it had “recently been contacted by the Department of Justice in connection with its own investigation, and we will be similarly cooperating with the DOJ to…
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Publisher’s Platform: What do Dole, Blue Bell, Bidart and Chipotle have in Common?

By Bill Marler on April 30, 2016

Yes, they are all under criminal investigation. Over the last week I have been in New York, Dallas, Phoenix, Boise, Fayetteville and San Francisco – and I was supposed to go to Chicago.  I really…
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Dole salad scandal spurs calls for stronger FDA

By Coral Beach on April 30, 2016

Reactions have been varied to the news that Dole Food Co. knowingly produced and shipped salads from a contaminated facility, ranging from criticism of the FDA to an admission by Dole’s management that the company…
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Dole knew of Listeria; feds launch criminal investigation

By Coral Beach on April 29, 2016

UPDATED CONTENT 6:37 p.m. EDT — The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Dole in relation to a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak, according to a statement from the company. Dole Food Co. “Dole has recently been contacted by the…
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Dole restarts salad facility; mum on Listeria cleaning process

By Coral Beach on April 28, 2016

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The salad production facility in Springfield, OH, was highlighted in Dole’s 2010 corporate report.
Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. has resumed production at a salad facility that was linked to a deadly…
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CDC says deadly outbreak over; Dole, FDA silent on salad plant

By Coral Beach on April 1, 2016

Dole Food Co. and the FDA remain mum on the status of a salad processing facility linked to a deadly international Listeria outbreak, which began in May 2015 and wasn’t declared over until this week.…
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Canada disbands its Dole salad outbreak investigation team

By News Desk on March 29, 2016

Health officials in Canada and the U.S. have thus far reported a total of 32 confirmed victims — four of whom died — with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes found in bagged salads produced…
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