WASHINGTON Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Links to foodservice operators who may have served foods to the individuals sickened in the outbreak, if any, were not immediately known.Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
The maker of the products being recalled, Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said the Freshway and Imperial Sysco romaine products in question have “Use By” dates of May 12 or earlier. They were sold in the District of Columbia and 23 states east of the Mississippi River to unspecified foodservice outlets, wholesalers and suppliers to in-store salad bars in the Kroger, Giant Eagle, Ingles Markets, and Marsh grocery chains, Freshway said.Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Anyone holding such products should immediately discard them, Freshway indicated.Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said it supported the recall for a number of reasons, including the discovery Wednesday of traces of E. coli O145 in an unopened bag of Freshway shredded romaine lettuce tested by a laboratory in New York.Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Public health officials in New York, Michigan and Ohio are investigating an outbreak with 19 confirmed cases of illness from E. coli O145, including a dozen that required hospitalization. Three of the hospitalized individuals have suffered a form of kidney failure called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, or HUS, that can lead to serious kidney damage and death, the FDA said.Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
FDA officials said multiple lines of evidence suggest the involvement of Freshway Foods lettuce from one processing facility in the outbreak. Among them:Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
- The shredded romaine lettuce consumed by ill persons in three states originated from one processing facility
- Preliminary results of a case-control study in one state that found a statistically significant association between E. coli O145 infection and ingestion of lettuce from the same processing facility.
- The recovery of E. coli O145 from an unopened package of shredded romaine lettuce from the same processing facility that was obtained from a foodservice entity associated with the outbreak.
Officials of Freshway Foods said the company has kept the FDA and other public health authorities fully apprised of its handling of the matter. They noted that “an extensive FDA investigation of Freshway Foods' facility in Sidney has not uncovered any contamination at the plant.”Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
“Freshway Foods is committed to our customers and their consumers who enjoy our products every day. We practice strict food safety guidelines to ensure that our products are as safe as possible, and we will continue to look for opportunities for improvement,” the company’s president Phil Gilardi said in a statement. “We are voluntarily issuing this recall because we want to do everything possible to minimize risk to public health.”Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
According to Freshway Foods, the recalled romaine lettuce products were sold in the following states: Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Contact Alan J. Liddle at [email protected]. Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
Foodservice products containing romaine lettuce under the Freshway Foods and Imperial Sysco brands are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns about E. coli contamination and links to a multi-state outbreak that has hospitalized 12 people and sickened others, federal officials said.
