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Fresh Express receives FDA warning letter after Cyclospora outbreak

As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or

By News Desk

/ 9 Nov 2020

Fresh Express receives FDA warning letter after Cyclospora outbreak

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According to the FDA, September is National Food Safety Education Month! This month take an active role in preventing foodborne illness, also known as “food poisoning.” The Federal government estimates

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Sep 2020

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Another Cyclospora outbreak from Fresh Express’s Illinois processing facility

For the second time in as many years, the Fresh Express processing plant in Streamwood, IL, is implicated in a Cyclospora outbreak. Two years ago, the Food and Drug Administration

By News Desk

/ 13 Jul 2020

Another Cyclospora outbreak from Fresh Express’s Illinois processing facility

UPDATED: Fresh Express’s cyclospora outbreak now spans eight states and three provinces

Editor’s note: Late this afternoon the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its patient count for this outbreak. The U.S. patient count has topped 500,

By News Desk

/ 9 Jul 2020

UPDATED: Fresh Express’s cyclospora outbreak now spans eight states and three provinces

Fresh Express salad recall includes 90 products — all from same plant

Naming additional retailers in relation to a parasitic outbreak associated with bagged salad mixes, U.S. officials are confident in evidence that is showing a Fresh Express production plant implicated

By Coral Beach

/ 30 Jun 2020

Fresh Express salad recall includes 90 products — all from same plant

Fresh Express launches nationwide salad recall in Canada for cyclospora

Fresh Express, the same produce company implicated in a parasitic outbreak and recalls of bagged salad in the U.S., has initiated a nationwide recall of a dozen of it’

By News Desk

/ 29 Jun 2020

Fresh Express launches nationwide salad recall in Canada for cyclospora

Walmart salad served by restaurant linked to parasitic infections; grocery store bagged salads still involved

With another 84 patients confirmed and an eighth state involved, an outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked to Fresh Express bagged salads sold by grocery stores is now being blamed for

By Coral Beach

/ 26 Jun 2020

Walmart salad served by restaurant linked to parasitic infections; grocery store bagged salads still involved

Spike in outbreak of parasites found in bags of salad; multiple grocery chains involved

The protozoan parasite, Cyclospora cayetanensis, is riding on the certain contents of bagged salad mixes, invading consumers’ intestinal tracts and causing loose stools and dehydrating diarrhea. More people fell victim

By Dan Flynn

/ 26 Jun 2020

Spike in outbreak of parasites found in bags of salad; multiple grocery chains involved

Largest of three romaine-related outbreaks sickened 167 people in 27 states

Federal officials connected some of the dots in their investigation of an E. coli outbreak yesterday when they declared the outbreak over. It was one of three concurrent outbreaks linked

By News Desk

/ 16 Jan 2020

Largest of three romaine-related outbreaks sickened 167 people in 27 states

CDC says U.S. portion of Fresh Express outbreak is over; 5 states impacted

Fresh Express Sunflower Crisp chopped salad kits were determined to be the likely source of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections that the CDC has declared over with

By News Desk

/ 16 Jan 2020

CDC says U.S. portion of Fresh Express outbreak is over; 5 states impacted

Romaine outbreaks are over (again)

Another round of romaine-connected E. coli outbreaks is over, according to the Food and Drug Administration and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before the end came, infections

By Dan Flynn

/ 15 Jan 2020

Wisconsin finds E. coli O157 in bagged Fresh Express romaine from California’s Salinas Valley

Wisconsin officials have found E. coli O157:H7 in an unopened bag of pre-washed, chopped romaine collected from an ill person’s home. Laboratory testing is pending to determine if

By News Desk

/ 10 Dec 2019

Wisconsin finds E. coli O157 in bagged Fresh Express romaine from California’s Salinas Valley

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Fresh Express receives FDA warning letter after Cyclospora outbreak

Publisher’s Platform – Food Safety Month – We need some work

Another Cyclospora outbreak from Fresh Express’s Illinois processing facility

UPDATED: Fresh Express’s cyclospora outbreak now spans eight states and three provinces

Fresh Express salad recall includes 90 products — all from same plant

Fresh Express launches nationwide salad recall in Canada for cyclospora

Walmart salad served by restaurant linked to parasitic infections; grocery store bagged salads still involved

Spike in outbreak of parasites found in bags of salad; multiple grocery chains involved

Largest of three romaine-related outbreaks sickened 167 people in 27 states

CDC says U.S. portion of Fresh Express outbreak is over; 5 states impacted

Romaine outbreaks are over (again)

Wisconsin finds E. coli O157 in bagged Fresh Express romaine from California’s Salinas Valley