listeria

Attention New York residents: BrightFarms spinach and salad kits recalled for Listeria risk.

Consumers should check their refrigerators and freezers for recalled products from Pelleh Poultry Corp. to avoid potential Listeria contamination.

Eight cases have been reported, from Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. One of the cases in Michigan resulted in a death.

The company says there are no confirmed illnesses, but has taken several products off the shelves.

A popular energy bar is being recalled due to concerns about possible contamination from listeria bacteria in sunflower kernels.

The list includes 40 different brand names at major retailers like Costco, Target, Trader Joe's and Safeway.

A government investigation of Ohio-based Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams found inadequate testing and cleaning in its Columbus plant that had become contaminated with listeria.

Federal health officials said Friday that they were never told of repeated findings of listeria at a Blue Bell Creameries facility before an outbreak linked to the ice cream turned deadly.

Blue Bell ice cream had evidence of listeria bacteria in its Oklahoma manufacturing plant as far back as March 2013, a government investigation released Thursday says. The company then continued to ship ice cream produced in that plant after what the Food and Drug Administration says was inadequate cleaning.

The government is relying on some new technology -- as well as a bit of luck -- to track an outbreak of life-threatening listeria linked to Blue Bell ice cream products.