Health officials are urging foodservice operators — including schools and restaurants across the country — to check their freezers for recalled strawberries from Egypt that may be contaminated with Hepatitis A.
The strawberries, produced and exported from Egypt by the International Company for Agricultural Production and Processing (ICAPP), are implicated in a nine-state Hepatitis A outbreak that has already sickened at least 134 people.
Although the frozen, imported strawberries were identified as the source of the outbreak in early August, the Egyptian company did not issue a recall until this past week, several days after the Food and Drug Administration imposed an Import Alert on the company’s strawberries citing Hepatitis A contamination. The recall includes all frozen strawberries ICAPP has sent to the U.S. since Jan. 1.
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