U.S. withdraws common condiment for contamination.
U.S. food regulators announced a voluntary recall of food produced with a common spice that may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria, but gave no estimate on the magnitude of the measure.
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Seasoning, called hydrolyzed vegetable protein is used in soups, sauces, sausages, snacks and garnishes and is manufactured by Basic Food Flavors Inc, a company located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“So far no known cases of illnesses associated with pollution and, obviously, we would like to remain so,” said the curator of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA for its acronym in English), Margaret Hamburg , told reporters in a teleconference.
The associate commissioner of the Food of the FDA, Jeff Farrar, said that “the manufacturer had many shippers who had first class individuals whose signatures were selling the product and, in turn, they sold to other companies.”
Several companies withdrew products such as sauces, packets of chips, salad, tofu, burritos and pasta. One of them is T. Marzetti, a unit of Lancaster Colony Corp., which on March 1 announced the retirement of a number of sauces.
The FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC for its acronym in English) and the Department of Agriculture United States is working with state health officials in Nevada to deal with the outbreak, told reporters Hamburg.
According to Farrar, authorities believe that the risk to consumers is very low.
The FDA said it collected and analyzed samples in the Nevada complex and confirmed the presence of Salmonella Tennessee in processing equipment company. The firm will pull all hydrolyzed vegetable protein powder and pulp produced since 17 September 2009.
Salmonella can cause severe illness in the very young, very old and fragile, for example, fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain and in the most vulnerable, bloodstream infection and organ failure.
This week the partnership Draft Product Safety reported that the annual costs of food poisoning amounted to 152,000 million in expenses related to health problems in America.
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