CDC tests for rabies and regional
recall follow discovery of deceased chiropteran in partially eaten packet of
Fresh Express Organic Marketside Spring Mix
Sunday 9 April 2017 22.45 BST
Last modified on Monday 10 April 2017 14.10 BST
A dead bat found inside a bagged
salad sold at a Florida Walmart
has prompted a regional recall and an investigation by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), which has warned Americans not to eat salad from
such packages.
Two people discovered the bat
after they had already eaten some of the salad in a bag of Organic Marketside
Spring Mix. They alerted authorities, who sent the bat to a CDC rabies lab. The
animal’s decayed state prevented a definitive test of whether it had rabies.
Transmission by eating an
infected animal is “extremely uncommon”, the CDC said in a statement, but the
two people were recommended for treatment out of an abundance of caution.
Neither Floridian showed any
signs of rabies and both reported good health, the CDC said, adding that there
have been no other “reports of bat material found in packaged salads”.
Experts with the Florida department of
heath, the federal Food and Drug Administration and the CDC are all involved in
an investigation into how the dead bat came to be packaged with the salad.
Fresh Express, the food company
whose product contained the bat, issued
a limited recall for salads sold in a clear container, with a best-used
date of 14 April and the production code G089B19.
The recalled salads were only
sold at Walmart stores in the south-eastern US, and the CDC said that all the
remaining salad packages from the relevant lot had been removed from store
locations.
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