Lawsuit filed against Fresh Express after FDA says tainted lettuce infected 641 people

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Lawsuit filed against Fresh Express after FDA says tainted lettuce infected 641 people
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A lawsuit has been filed against a bagged salad brand after the FDA and CDC linked its product to hundreds of parasite infections, leading the product to be recalled in June.

4 min readSeventy-five different products that contain methanol, a potentially deadly chemical, have been recalled in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration.A lawsuit has been filed against a bagged salad brand after the FDA and CDC linked its product to hundreds ofTainted salad mix from Fresh Express, which was sold at ALDI, Hy-Vee, Walmart and Jewel-Osco stores, caused an outbreak of cyclospora across the Midwest, according to an investigation by the U.S.

"Six-hundred and forty-one people with laboratory-confirmed Cyclospora infections and who reported eating bagged salad mix before getting sick have been reported from 11 states -- Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin," the CDC announced in a

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