49 Cases of Hepatitis A Linked to Frozen Berries
Sold at Costco and Harris Teeter
The number of hepatitis A infections linked to a frozen berry mix sold nationwide has now climbed to 49, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday.
That announcement came on the heels of the first formal recall of the implicated product, which was issued by the maker of the berry mix, Oregon-based Townsend Farms, Monday — three days after the outbreak was announced by CDC. In its recall announcement, the fruit company revealed that the product had not only been sold at Costco, which removed the berries from store shelves Thursday, but also at Harris Teeter.
This means the product was not only sold in the western United States, where all of the illnesses reported to date have occurred, but also on the East Coast, where Harris Teeter stores are located.
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See what the sequester and those libertarian extremists have done? How many people have to die to prove to you how much we depend on government to protect us from these evil corporations who want nothing more than to kill all their customers? I hope now we can get some sort of government agency to make companies like Townsend Farms follow reasonable health and safety rules to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.