Marie Callender's Salmonella Case Revisited
On June 17, 2010, ConAgra Foods announced a recall of Marie Callender's Cheesy Chicken & Rice single-serve frozen entrees in connection with a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella.
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This recall is still in effect because some of the orginally recalled product may remain in consumers' home freezers. The chance of illness from the recalled Cheesy Chicken & Rice entres has not changed
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 29 people in 14 states already were sick with the identical strain of Salmonella Chester when the outbreak and recall were announced. Had ConAgra been slow to heed a phone call from CDC's foodborne outbreak chief, Ian Williams, many more people would have been infected.
The latest entry in CDC's Public Health Matters Blog discusses the fact that food manufacturers aren't always quick to initiate recalls when agencies call to report the likelihood of a link between an outbreak and their product.
But in the case of the Marie Callender's Salmonella outbreak, Williams and ConAgra's global chief quality officer knew each other from food safety conferences. The recall was announced even before CDC had laboratory confirmation of the outbreak strain of Salmonella from a previously unopened box of Marie Callender's Cheesy Chicken and Rice.
As the situation exists today, there is still a chance some consumers could fall ill from the bacteria if they pull the product from their freezers at home, unaware of the recall. Law firm Pritzker Olsen is continuing to accept cases from this outbreak and it is not too late to file a claim depending on the circumstances.
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