The plaintiff was one of at least 42 people in five states who contracted a Salmonella infection after eating the pine nuts. Most of the victims, 27 of them, are from New York (US). There are also eight victims from Pennsylvania, four from Virginia, two from New Jersey and one from Maryland.
Food safety attorney, Fred Pritzker, said: “This outbreak was caused by a breakdown in the food safety systems designed to protect consumers. After the fact testing conclusively proved that the Turkish pine nuts were adulterated with Salmonella Enteritidis. Had these companies properly tested the product in the first place, this outbreak would not have occurred.”
Further tests by the FDA confirmed that Salmonella matching the outbreak strain was present on samples of Turkish pine nuts taken from a warehouse used by Sunrise Commodities. The recall was then expanded to include pine nuts that had been distributed to food vendors in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Canada.
Source: PritzkerOlsen
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