ILLINOIS resident linked to Malt-O-Meal Salmonella Agona - (Marler Blog)

April 15, 2008 – 8:57 pm

http://www.marlerblog.com/2008/04/articles/legal-cases/illinois-resident-linked-to-maltomeal-salmonella-agona/
Illinois has joined Maine and Minnesota in naming themselves as locations of ill persons linked to Salmonella Agona tainted Unsweetened Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat cereal. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Saturday that diagnoses of salmonellosis linked with the consumption of Malt-O-Meal cereals have been reported in 14 states.
Three people have been treated in hospital.
Three states down, eight to go. What continues to go unreported is what the same plant that produced the same PFGE (genetic fingerprint) Salmonella Agona in 1998 has been doing since 1998? Also, have there been Salmonella Agona illnesses linked to cereal consumption over the last ten years?
Craig Hedberg, PhD, a foodborne disease expert and associate professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis, told CIDRAP News that there may an environmental source of S Agona at the plant, despite the steps that Malt-O-Meal reportedly […]


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