No toxic bacteria found from factory samples in potato salad poisoning probe
MAEBASHI
The government of the Gunma Prefecture city of Takasaki said Saturday it did not find any toxic bacteria in food samples taken from a local factory after potato salad produced there caused E. coli food poisoning earlier in the month.
Twelve people who ate the salad sold in Gunma and the neighboring Saitama prefectures in early August were found to have been infected with the O157 strain of the bacteria, and one of them became gravely ill.
Those who became infected ate the salad made on Aug 5-7 at the food factory in Takasaki. Tests on potato salad samples made between Aug 1 and 18 and preserved at the factory found no toxic bacteria, according to the eastern Japan city.
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