The US Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Canada, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have announced that they are investigating the association of fresh organic strawberries with the recent outbreak of hepatitis A.
According to the American “Fox News” network, the Food and Drug Administration said in a press statement that it is looking into the association of the outbreak in the United States and Canada with organic strawberries belonging to two brands whose names it has identified.
The authority asked consumers who bought this fruit between March 5 and April 25 to get rid of it.
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The Food and Drug Administration wrote in a statement: “Currently, products potentially affected by the virus have exceeded their shelf life. Therefore, we are asking people who purchased these organic strawberries between March 5, 2022 and April 25, 2022 and frozen them. to be consumed later, not to be eaten.”
“Also, if you are not sure which brand to buy, strawberries should be discarded immediately,” the statement added.
The authority said that so far there are 17 people who have contracted the disease, with 12 cases in hospital, all of whom have reported eating this strawberry.
Symptoms of hepatitis A include jaundice (yellow pigmentation of the skin and whites of the eyes), diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain. A number of cases required a liver transplant. In rare cases, the disease can lead to death, although most people with the infection recover completely within a few weeks.