A salmonella outbreak that has sickened nine people in Wisconsin and Illinois has been traced to BrightFarms branded salads, according to the state Department of Health Services.
From June 10-15, 2021, four people in Wisconsin and five people in Illinois became sick and one was hospitalized.
“At this time, DHS urges consumers not to purchase, eat or serve BrightFarms branded pre-packaged salad greens,” DHS Communicable Diseases Supervisor Ryan Wozniak said in a news release Friday. “Consumers and food service establishments who have BrightFarms salad greens with any ‘best-by’ date should not eat, serve or sell any of the recalled products.”
The CDC also urges people who have recalled salads to use hot and soapy water to wash surfaces and containers that may have touched the salad greens.