USA -Schools, hospitals received cucumbers recalled for Salmonella

Food Safety News cucumber

Thousands of public school students, as well as hospital patients, may have been served fresh cucumbers that are under recall because of potential Salmonella contamination.

“Prime Time Produce has issued a voluntary product recall for certain lots of cucumbers, delivered to multiple locations in Bakersfield, due to potential salmonella contamination,” according to a notice posted Monday by the Kern County Public Health Services Department in California.

A grower-distributor based in Coachella, CA, Prime Time Produce did not have any information about a cucumber recall on its website as of 11 p.m. EST Monday. Nor did the California Department of Public Health or the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

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