USA salmonella outbreak across nine states investigated

A salmonella outbreak that has sickened people in nine states may be linked to nut butter spreads. While there have been 11 illnesses reported by people who have consumed the nut butter spreads, no one has been hospitalized and no cases have immediately been reported in Kane County, states the release.

Any remaining nut butter spread should be thrown away. All of them reported eating nut butter or nut butter spread before becoming ill. There haven’t been any reported deaths or hospitalizations.

Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.

Two other outbreaks associated with pet turtles infected 51 people in 16 states between January 22 and September 8, 2015, with 15 patients requiring hospitalization, the CDC said.

Earlier this year, four people in the United States died and more than 800 were sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to imported cucumbers from Mexico, according to the CDC. Retailers should not sell these products and restaurants should not serve them, CDC stated.

The FDA has been at the warehouse and tested the products, and so far those results have showed no signs of salmonella, co-owner JEM Raw Organic Jennifer Moore said Thursday. “We are taking these steps because consumer safety is our top priority”, she said.

The company recalled 116,262 pounds of whole hogs for barbecue on August 13, 2015, and that recall was expanded on August 27 to include another 523,380 pounds of whole hogs and related products.

Public health officials are using the PulseNet system to identify illnesses that may be part of this outbreak. The product was shipped to individuals, retail locations, institutions, and distributors in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. Consumers do not need to return the product to the store where it was purchased.