May contain listeria, a germ that can cause serious illness.
Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.
Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Dole.
Leafy Romaine; Romaine Lettuce & Leaf Lettuces; 10 oz plastic bag. Best if used by date: June 19, 2012. Packaged under brand names of: Kroger Fresh Selections, UPC 0 11110 91046 2, Distributed by the Kroger Co., Cincinnati, OH 45202 and Marketside UPC: 6 81131 02781 6 Distributed by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Bentonville, AR 72716
Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.
The FDA’s most serious class: a reasonable probability that using the product will cause serious health consequences or death.
This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.
Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.
This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.
The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.
To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-1447-2012 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.