Chicken Salad Bowls Pulled From Markets Due to Listeria Concerns

Florida-based Fresh Express announced a recall of Gourmet Café Chicken Caesar Salad Bowls as the products included items from BrucePac, a company that recently had concerns about listeria.
The salad bowls were distributed in California, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, according to the notice.
Customers are advised to discard the product. For more information regarding refunds, consumers are requested to contact Fresh Express Consumer Response Center, and the recall notice added that refunds were also available at the place of purchase.
The salad bowls’ “use-by” dates ranged from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2, 2024.
Pregnant women typically suffer from flu-like symptoms and fever when affected by invasive listeriosis, whereas non-pregnant people with the illness may also suffer from headaches, neck stiffness, confusion, loss of balance, and seizures. Nearly one in six non-pregnant people with invasive listeriosis die.
Diarrhea and vomiting are symptoms of intestinal illness. Symptoms of this variant are usually mild, but sometimes the illness develops into invasive illness.
While the CDC has closed its investigation on the outbreak linked to cheese, the agency is still probing the deli meat situation.
“The complexity of the modern food supply chain, with its reliance on global sourcing, increases the risk of contamination at various points from production to distribution,” he said. “Changes in consumer preference toward ready-to-eat foods and fresh produce, which are more susceptible to contamination, have heightened the risk.”
Detwiler has observed that listeria is “more harmful” than many people assume, noting that roughly 20 percent of listeriosis cases among pregnant women cause miscarriages or stillbirths.
In around 50 percent of pregnancies affected by the infection, babies are delivered before 37 weeks of gestation, he said.