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Tue Apr 13, 2021, 02:18 PM Apr 2021

Public Health Alert Issued on 200,000 Pounds of Ground Turkey After Salmonella Outbreak

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing a public health alert for 211,406 pounds of ground turkey products because they may be contaminated with salmonella. The alert comes after a multistate salmonella outbreak that officials think may be connected to the ground turkey.

The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is not issuing a full-on recall on the two tons of raw turkey because they believe that the products are no longer available for purchase in stores, according to the announcement. The affected products all have sell-by dates of January 2021, meaning retailers shouldn't need to pull them from the shelves. However, the FSIS is concerned that the potentially salmonella-tainted poultry could still be sitting in consumers' freezers.

All of the products were made by Pennsylvania food manufacturer Plainville Brands, LLC, and were sold nationwide under the brand names Nature’s Promise, Wegmans, and Plainville Farms. The affected products included numerous lots of one- and three-pound packages of lean ground turkey manufactured at the Plainville Brands plant between December 18 and December 29, 2020. They're labeled either 93% lean and 7% fat, or 94% lean and 6% fat, and will have use by/freeze/sell-by dates of specific days in January 2021 on the front of the package. The products will also contain establishment number EST. P-244 inside the USDA mark of inspection. If you're concerned you may have affected products stored in your freezer, see the USDA's complete list for the specific use by/freeze/sell-by dates.

The salmonella outbreak spans 12 states and includes 28 cases of infection starting between December 28, 2020 and March 4, 2021. One person who became sick reported eating ground turkey produced by Plainville Brands. Investigators also found another (unopened) package of Plainville Brands–made ground turkey in the patient's home that tested positive for Salmonella Hadar, a strain of salmonella closely related genetically to the one affecting that person. But so far, public health and regulatory officials from the USDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and local agencies have managed to connect that single case to the ground turkey in question.

https://www.self.com/story/ground-turkey-salmonella-public-health-alert

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