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Default Fresh Express Recalls Batch After Dead Bat Found In Prepackaged Salad

Taxed and Spent wrote:

> 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.



In the 1962 horror film "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", demented ex - child actor Jane (Bette Davis) serves a rat to her hapless invalid sister Blanche (Joan Crawford)...


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