Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, may be responsible for a romaine lettuce recall earlier this year, that had sickened students in three states. According to the lettuce distributor, investigators are tracing the outbreak to a farm in Yuma, Arizona. Freshway Foods sold the lettuce in 23 states and recalled it because of a possible E. coli 057:H7 outbreak. Three of the illnesses were life-threatening. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked 10 other cases to the recall.
Both college and high school students were effected by the outbreak. Health officials claim that college students were sickened in April and have already recovered. The superintendent in New York, James Parla said that two cases were confirmed and connected to other cases in two different states. Vice President at Freshway Foods Devon Beer, said that the company with the FDA and found the farmer who grew the contaminated lettuce but would not name him.
The recall only includes lettuce that had a “best if used by” date on or before May 12 because Freshway Foods did not continue buying its lettuce from the manufacturer. It was not clear why the contaminated lettuce had hit college and high schools students the worst but it was probably because of the "grab and go" salads sold at Kroger, Giant Eagle, Ingles Markets, Marsh grocery stores food service outlets and in-store salad bars and delis. Most of the recalled lettuce was sold in states east of the Mississippi River. It was sold in Alabama, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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