Samples of contaminated food were collected from April 17, 2021, to Sept. 29, 2022, the CDC said.
More than a dozen people have been hospitalized and one has died in an outbreak of listeria bacteria linked to contaminated deli meats and cheeses, US health officials said.
The strain of listeria has been found in 16 people across six states, including California, with New York reporting the most, according to a report Wednesday from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Eastern European and Russian-speaking people accounted for 11 of the 13 cases for whom ethnicity information was available.
An estimated 1,600 people get listeriosis each year and about 260 of them die, according to the CDC website.
