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Introduction
According to Wikipedia: Escherichia coli is a gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium and is one of the most common facultative anaerobic bacteria in the large intestines of warm-blooded animals such as mammals and is required for digesting food. It is an enterobacterium that is often used as a model for bacteria in general.
The bacterium is named after the German microbiologist Theodor Escherich.
20 People Infected & Product Recalls
Since July of this year, there have been a total of twenty persons infected with the same strain of E. coli in six different states.
Five of them required hospitalization, and one of them got a hemolytic uremic syndrome, which is a condition that is known to cause kidney failure.
There have been no reports of fatalities associated with this latest E. coli outbreak; however, it has led to product recalls from one of the most rapidly expanding grocery retail chains in the United States of America.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are currently conducting a joint investigation into the outbreak.
Investigators made this discovery after speaking with 18 of the affected patients and discovering that 15 of them had shopped at the same grocery store.
Earth Grown Vegan Traditional Falafel and Earth Grown Garlic & Herb Falafel are two of the goods manufactured by Cuisine Innovations Unlimited, LLC that have been voluntarily recalled after the company discovered that the items may contain Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.
Both goods were only available for purchase at Aldi supermarket shops nationwide.
In their announcement, Aldi stated that the products had been promptly removed from store shelves and that the recall was “a preventive action due to the potential exposure to E. Coli.” Six of the 18 afflicted people who were interviewed by investigators reported consuming Earth Grown frozen falafel in the week preceding their infection.
This information was gleaned via interviews with the infected patients.
Conclusion
“ALDI takes the safety and integrity of the products it sells seriously. If customers have product(s) affected by this voluntary recall, they should discard it immediately or return it to their local store for a full refund,” the company, with over 2,000 U.S. locations, said in a statement.
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