The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a nice summary of the Salmonella Montevideo and Senftenberg outbreak associated with consumption of Daniele salami products. What is notable about this outbreak is the size (272 cases from 44 states and the District of Columbia) and scope (illness onset from July 1
Mincing Overseas black pepper added to salami/pepper recall (correction to earlier blog post)
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We have been following the large outbreak and recall linked to Daniele Inc. salami products since the middle of January. The outbreak began in July 2009, but was not discovered until January 2010. Two strains of Salmonella–Montevideo and Senftenberg–are known to have been involved. The recall began on January 23, 2010, with Daniele’s recall of
Answers in the Salmonella outbreak linked to salami and pepper
This evening, Wholesome Spice and Seasoning Company, a Brooklyn, NY, spice wholesaler, recalled "all lots of 25 lb boxes of Crushed Red Pepper sold between 4/6/09 and 1/20/10." See FDA Recall Notice. The reason for the recall is, of course, that the recalled red pepper is contaminated with Salmonella, thus explaining (partially, fully?) a national
The slow flow of information about food outbreaks
Today, the Rhode Island Department of health announced that the pepper that Daniele Inc used to produce its salami–now the subject of a major recall and outbreak–was contaminated, not the meat itself Pepper has been suspected as the source of this outbreak since at least January 23, 2010, if not before. A little frighteningly, Rhode Island also