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Fresh Express and Dole recall hundreds of salad products over listeria concerns

The companies are asking customers to throw the potentially affected products away immediately.
Pre-packaged salad sits on the shelf at a Bell Market grocery store in San Francisco in 2003. Hundreds of recent salad products from Dole and Fresh Express have been recalled due to listeria concerns.

Check your fridge: Fresh Express and Dole Fresh Vegetables are recalling dozens of packaged salad products over possible listeria contamination and asking customers to throw them away immediately.

The two recalls appear to be unrelated, but together affect more than 400 products across dozens of states and two Canadian provinces.

Fresh Express that it was recalling some 225 varieties of salads that were produced at its Streamwood, Ill., facility and distributed to retailers in the Northeast and Midwest as well as parts of Canada. on Wednesday with 180 product recalls and is temporarily suspending operations at its facilities in Bessemer City, N.C., and Yuma, Ariz., for cleaning and sanitation.

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