A tracked salmonella outbreak for a Florida cucumber producer has expanded to include 45 people who report diseases in 18 states, said the United States food and medication administration on Friday.
The Target stores joined a growing list of retailers who sold cucumbers removed from the market or products ready to eat with the fruit, and warns that buyers must throw them away.
The retailer issued a list of products removed from the market, including a Greek -style chicken salad of wild boar head and various types of basic Sushi restaurants, such as Maki rolls with tempura and California rolls, all sold under the MAI brand.
Last week, the Walmart grocery store chain was added to the list of retailers who urged customers to put the products possibly contaminated in the trash, according to the United States drug and food administration; His market cucumber slices are part of the retirement.
Patients connected to the outbreak have appeared in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, the FDA said Friday.
Of 45 people who reported a disease connected to the outbreak, 16 have been hospitalized, the agency said. No deaths have been reported.
While the researchers’s approach has been in the Salmonella Montevideo strain, other strains were detected in samples taken from a Pensylvania distribution center that belongs to Bedner producers based in Florida, which is believed to be a source, the FDA said in his Friday statement.
The FDA said that these different strains so far seem to be related to the spring outbreak, but that it is investigating more with the scientists of the US centers. For the control and prevention of diseases.
“CDCs are working to determine if additional human diseases coincide with these additional strains,” said the FDA. “The additional analysis of the sample is pending.”
All diseases have been connected with cucumbers produced by Bedner and distributed by Fresh Start produces salts, the agency said. The cucumbers and the products that contained them were sold from April 29 to May 19, said the FDA.
The first retailers stood out for selling potentially contaminated cucumbers were three Locations of Bedner Fresh Market in Florida, but the list of public orientation vendors has continued to increase.
Other distributors and restaurants were told that they could also have bought the cucumbers possibly contaminated, labeled for wholesalers such as “supers”, “select” or “plains,” said the FDA.
The FDA inspectors unemployed contaminated cucumbers during an inspection last month of Bedner producers’ facilities, he said. The review was a monitoring of an African Salmonella outbreak linked to the producer last year, according to the agency.
Bedner did not immediately respond to a comment request on Friday night. A Fresh Start Product Sales spokesman said last week that the company “is committed to protecting public health and helping Bedner producers with their retirement.”
Salmonella is a bacterium that can prosper in the midst of animals and their fecal matter and contaminate nearby products, which can reach the table if it does not turn without washing, according to the FDA and the CDC.
The elderly, children under 5 years old and those with committed immune systems are particularly susceptible to the worst symptoms of salmonella and even death. Patients ill for you can develop stomach cramps, diarrhea, nausea and the need to vomit between six hours and six days after infection, says CDC.
Salmonella is “a main cause of food transmitted diseases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States and worldwide,” says CDC.
