The Public Health Agency says it believes there is a connection between a listeria outbreak in five provinces and one in the US.
The outbreak has prompted Dole to withdraw packaged salads from Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada along with more than 20 American states.
The public health agency says it's awaiting lab tests to confirm that Canada and the US are dealing with the same outbreak.
It has resulted in seven people being hospitalized in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland; most of them women with an average age of 81.
They became sick between September and early January and one of them died, but it hasn't been determined if Listeria contributed to the death.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says packaged salads produced at a Dole facility in Ohio have been linked to a death in Michigan and the hospitalizations of 12 people in six states.
The outbreak dates back to July.
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