Fresh Express expanded its bagged salad recall to include many lettuce mixes and coleslaw with iceberg lettuce, red cabbage or carrot that investigators say are the likely cause of a cyclospora outbreak.
The FDA is inspecting an Illinois plant where Fresh Express made the products under its brand and for a half dozen grocery store brands. The agency is trying to trace the source of the intestinal parasite, which has infected about 200 people in Midwestern states, including 23 who needed to go to the hospital, according to the CDC’s tally. The salads were sold throughout much of the U.S.