Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 11, 2013
Foods4BetterHealth.com, a new food and nutrition web internet site that believes in utilizing meals to heal and stop illness and illness and support you live a long, pleased life, is reporting on the current hepatitis A outbreak that affected five U.S. states, as announced by the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this week.

As Foods4BetterHealth notes (http://www.foods4betterhealth.com/news-bite-frozen-fruit-mix-recalled-linked-to-hepatitis-a-outbreak-2137), 34 individuals had been infected with the hepatitis A virus allegedly due to contamination in a Townsend Farms frozen berry mix. To date, nine individuals have been hospitalized. The Centers for Disease Manage and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the incident, believed to be caused by contamination from the pomegranate seeds, imported from Egypt, found in the berry mix. Townsend Farms is voluntarily recalling the solution and is informing its retailers about the contamination.

As the post News Bite: Frozen Fruit Mix Recalled, Linked to Hepatitis A Outbreak, reports, hepatitis A is a rare but contagious liver infection that is generally only present in North Africa and the Middle East. This isnt the very first time that a hepatitis A outbreak occurred due to meals contamination the write-up also notes that the very same genotype of the virus was identified in Europe earlier this year and in 2012 in British Columbia, Canada, which was also a outcome of contaminated pomegranate seeds.

The Foods4BetterHealth article notes that shoppers need to immediately discard this solution if theyve bought it, and get checked by a physician if theyve already consumed the item. Hepatitis A symptoms typically seem five to 15 days right after exposure to the virus. If treated inside two weeks with a hepatitis A vaccination, there are generally no long-term effects however, if left untreated, the condition can progress to liver failure and death.

The Foods4BetterHealth report concludes that buyers want to be vigilant about the goods they purchase, and that meals makers must take more duty for the things they import.

(Supply: Townsend Farms voluntarily recalls limited lots of frozen organic antioxidant blend items due to achievable wellness threat, U.S. Meals and Drug Administration web site http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm355166.htm, last accessed June 4, 2013.)

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