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Salmonella may be in some packages of Costco pepper. Over the last 24 hours, the company has been calling the 140,000 of its customers who may be affected by the potentially contaminated product, according to NBC News. The company has not issued a recall or posted product safety information on its website.

The product in question is Kirkland Signature Coarse Ground Malabar Black Pepper with a “best before” date of March 2017. During routine testing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered a rare strain, Salmonella Duisburg, in some of the samples, according to NBC.

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s ship Explorer of the Seas is returning two days early to its New Jersey port after a stomach illness struck more than 600 people out of about 4,200 onboard, NBC News reported late Sunday. The 564 passengers and 47 crew members on the 10-day cruise to the U.S. Virgin Islands reported symptoms suggesting a possible norovirus outbreak, the report said, citing an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The incident follows the outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness aboard another ship earlier this month.

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NBC News reports that U.S. health officials are expected to board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in the Virgin Islands on Sunday to investigate a possible outbreak of highly contagious norovirus that has sickened more than 300 passengers and crew members.

The Explorer of the Seas ship stopped part way through a 10-day cruise from Cape Liberty, N.J., to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten after reports of vomiting and diarrhea, according to the cruise line and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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