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contacted by the Post-Dispatch said they had recently eaten at salad bars from
Schnucks stores in St. Louis, Ladue, and High Ridge.
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October 30, Food Safety News
– (Pennsylvania) Yersinia turns up again at
Pennsylvania dairy. The Pennsylvania state departments of agriculture and health
were advising consumers and retailers who purchased milk from Brunton Dairy in
Aliquippa, to immediately discard all milk with a sell-by date of October 25 or later. As
part of ongoing oversight testing of the dairy, the agriculture department confirmed a
positive test result for Yersinia bacteria from pasteurized, homogenized fat-free milk in
a 1- gallon glass bottle with a date code of October 25. Milk production has been
suspended at the dairy until additional testing is completed. Yersinia enterocolitica
causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting, and it can sometimes enter the
bloodstream and affect other organs. This infection can be severe, and illness can
mimic appendicitis and sometimes lead to unnecessary surgery. In June and July, five
people were sickened with Yersinia enterocolitica after drinking pasteurized milk in
glass bottles from Brunton dairy.
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October 30, Food Safety News
– (North Carolina) 23 of 26 E. coli cases tied to North
Carolina State Fair. North Carolina Division of Public Health authorities investigating
an outbreak of E. coli said 23 of the 26 people sickened attended the state fair earlier in
October, pointing to the fair as the probable source of exposure. In a news release, the
health department said of the 26 cases reported so far, 13 are adults, and 13 are
children. Five people were hospitalized. Fourteen of the ill people are from Wake
County and six are from Sampson County. Single cases of infection have been reported
from Cleveland, Durham, Franklin, Johnston, Orange, and Wilson counties. Public
health officials, who are working with the state department of agriculture and consumer
services on the investigation, said they will contact some fairgoers as they try to
pinpoint the specific source. In 2004, more than 100 attendees of the North Carolina
State Fair were sickened with E. coli O157:H7 in an outbreak linked to a petting zoo.
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October 29, Food Safety News
– (National) Allergy alert: Kale chips with
undeclared cashews. Rhythm Superfoods is recalling approximately 2,700 cases from
6 days of production of Kool Ranch Kale Chips that were inadvertently placed into
packaging that did not declare cashews as an ingredient and were possibly shipped to
retail locations nationwide, Food Safety News reported October 29. One case of
allergic reaction has been reported. The recall was initiated after it was discovered that
product containing cashews was distributed in packaging that did not reveal the
presence of cashews. A subsequent investigation indicated the problem was caused by
the use of new packaging.
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