On 4/9/2017 4:47 PM, Vegan Hotdogs wrote:
> An unwelcome discovery by a couple of salad eaters included a
> sordid new ingredient.
>
> On Saturday, the company Fresh Express announced a precautionary
> recall of some of its prepackaged salad mixes, after two people
> in Florida say they found a dead bat in their leafy greens.
>
> According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
> two had eaten some of the product before finding the decomposed
> organism in a 5-ounce clear container of the Organic Marketside
> Spring Mix.
>
> But "out of an abundance of caution," Fresh Express says in a
> statement, all Organic Marketside Spring Mix salads from that
> production lot are subject to the recall.
>
> The mix in question was distributed exclusively to Walmart
> stores located in the Southeastern region of the U.S. Walmart
> has since pulled the product from its shelves, the company adds,
> and no other Marketside salads are included in the recall.
>
> Florida health officials, the FDA and the CDC have launched an
> investigation into the matter.
>
> Due to the animal's decayed condition, the CDC couldn't
> immediately rule out whether this particular bat carried rabies,
> but recommended the two people who ate the contaminated salad
> receive treatment for the disease.
>
> "Both people report being in good health and neither has any
> signs of rabies," the CDC says.
>
> The deadly rabies virus is endemic to bats across the U.S., but
> is rarely contracted by humans. And, as the CDC points out,
> transmission through consuming an infected animal is "extremely
> uncommon." The agency adds that it hasn't heard of any other
> cases of bat material found in packaged salads.
>
> "People who have eaten the recalled salad product and did not
> find animal material are not at risk and do not need to contact
> their health department," the CDC advises.
>
> http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-
> way/2017/04/09/523154228/fresh-express-issues-recall-after-dead-
> bat-reportedly-found-in-prepackaged-salad
>


well that tops the snail that came crawling out of the salad at the
Japanese restaurant the other day.