ALERT!! Salmonella cases: Half still come from crackers
Salmonella cases: Half still come from crackers
Recalled foods continue to sicken consumers, worried health officials say
Recall warnings have been issued for more than 3,400 peanut products, including Austin Quality Foods peanut butter crackers, but health officials are concerned the message hasn't reached some consumers. The foods have been linked to an ongoing outbreak of salmonella poisoning.
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Bill Rector of Blaine, Wash., didn’t know about a nationwide recall of peanut butter products until he and his 3-year-old daughter already had been hospitalized with salmonella poisoning.
“That's the first we heard of it,” he said.
But that was back in January, when the 32-year-old meat cutter said he and his toddler were sickened by Austin Quality Foods crackers linked to a still-widening food poisoning outbreak. Since then, word has spread, he said.
Or so you’d think.
Nearly two months after the initial recalls, and despite massive publicity about the salmonella scare linked to faulty practices at a Georgia peanut processing plant, federal health officials are worried that some consumers still haven’t gotten the message.
Half of new cases tied to crackers
About half of the new cases of confirmed salmonella infection continue to show up in people who ate Austin or Keebler peanut butter crackers manufactured by the Kellogg Co., according to officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That includes illnesses that began as recently as Feb. 13, long after retailers and health officials thought they’d issued adequate warnings.
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