PENNSYLVANIA: Illness prompts state probes of restaurant - (Lancaster Online)
March 23, 2008 – 7:13 pmhttp://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/218683
The state has given Reflections restaurant a clean bill of health twice since patrons complained of getting sick in February.
Spokesman Chris Ryder was cited as saying State Department of Agriculture inspectors checked the Leola eatery Feb. 19 and March 7, and Reflections employees were found following all proper food handling and sanitation practices, and all equipment was in order, adding, “It would appear that [the illness] was not related to … something that was being done at the restaurant,”
The department checks all complaints, said Ryder, who added that the volume of calls in the case was unusual.
The department said that within a two-week period in February, 19 people in three separate parties reported vomiting and diarrhea around the time they visited the restaurant.
A flu-like intestinal bug was rampant throughout the country at the time.
The bug likely sparked the flurry of calls, said state Department of Health spokeswoman Stacy […]
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