Red onions linked to salmonella outbreak that has sickened people in 31 states
Source: CNN
A multistate outbreak of salmonella poisoning that has sickened almost 400 people in 31 states has been traced back to red onions, federal health officials said. And a company based in Bakersfield, California is the likely source of the potentially contaminated onions, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
"Although the investigation has determined that red onions are the likely source of this outbreak, Thomson International, Inc. has notified FDA that it will be recalling all varieties of onions that could have come in contact with potentially contaminated red onions, due to the risk of cross-contamination," the agency said in a statement Friday.
The onion recall will include red, white, yellow and sweet onions from Thomson International.
So far salmonella Newport has sickened 396 people and put nearly 60 into the hospital. The first cases were reported between June 19 and July 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The FDA said the investigation into the outbreak is continuing to determine whether any other products are linked to the illness. Salmonella cases with a similar genetic fingerprint to the US cases have also been identified in Canada.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/01/health/red-onions-salmonella-outbreak/index.html
Infections have been reported in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
= new reply since forum marked as read
There are those who say growing your own food is eliteist. You have to have enough space and time to grow your own food. Only people of wealth would have that.
I'm not talking about a few containers or small corners of your yard. I'm talking about being able to grow enough to can and eat throughout the year. It can get expensive.
One of the things I have to learn is to grow more of fewer items. I grew a lot of things this year to see what grows well and what we like, but as a result we have a few of a lot of veggies. Enough for a few meals and general satisfaction, but don'task how much each tomato is costing me. 
The real evil here is the safety of our commercial sector has been degraded severely. fda testing is a joke under this admin, Pesticide restrictions were eviscerated by the epa. Nobody is watching the farmers, who are being stretched thin between bad weather and a lack of migrant workers.
Sure, these incidents have always happened in small batches. But 400 people in 31 states shows nobody was watching. This is only going to get worse. The agencies have been stripped bare. Competent dedicated guv workers have been driven out and have been replaced with hacks, if at all. It will take decades to recover.
We need multiple truth commissions. One for each major agency. It is that bad.
