Salame stick snacks by Citterio linked to salmonella outbreak - Standard Speaker

Salame stick packaged snacks sold primarily at Trader Joe’s stores have been linked to possible salmonella contamination, sickening people in eight states, health officials warned.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a food safety alert Saturday afternoon, citing the Citterio brand of Premium Italian-Style Salame Sticks as the likely source of the outbreak.

Citterio USA is based in Freeland.

Trader Joe’s stores have voluntarily stopped selling the products at their stores nationwide, the CDC says.

People should not eat the Citterio brand Premium Italian-Style Salame Sticks, the CDC said in a news release, purchased from Trader Joe’s or another store. If you have the product, no matter what the best-by date is, the CDC says it should be thrown out. The CDC also advises that people wash items and surfaces that may have touched the products using hot soapy water or a dishwasher.

The CDC’s alert says there have been 20 people who have become sick in eight states.

Those who became ill ranged in age from 2 to 75, with a median age of 11, according to investigation details. Three people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.

Most of those who have become sick, are younger than 18 years old.

“Children are more likely to get very sick from salmonella,” the CDC says.

Although a total of 20 people have reportedly been infected, the number of sick people is likely much higher, the CDC says.

“This is because many infected people recover without medical care and are not tested for salmonella,” the CDC says.

Of the nine people interviewed about foods they ate before becoming sick, eight said they ate or possibly ate the salame sticks, the CDC says.

This outbreak is a different strain of salmonella and not related to ongoing outbreaks. In the past week, the CDC linked raw onions imported from Chihuahua, Mexico, to an ongoing salmonella outbreak in 37 states, including Michigan, that was first announced in August.

The CDC estimates that salmonella bacteria causes more than 1 million infections, 26,500 hospitalizations and 420 deaths in the U.S. every year, and most of the illnesses come from food.

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