Salmonella Investigation
Tuesday, July 15 2008
by Yasmeen Khan
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State agriculture officials are working to crack the case of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Fourteen North Carolinians became sick with salmonella in recent weeks -- from the same strain of bacteria that sickened more than one-thousand people nationwide. Six local cases are linked to one Charlotte-area restaurant. Joe Reardon with state division of Food and Drug protection says his office is testing samples of produce from the restaurant and its distributors to find the culprit.
"So we're gonna work day and night. We have suspended all other activities in our micro-laboratory to focus just chiefly on this. We want to see if we can work hard to find any particular issue there and then to address it and remove these products nationally so we can get this behind us."
Reardon says his office is looking into everything that customers ate -- including onions, hot peppers and spices. He added that none of the products are from North Carolina.
