20 December 2022 at 09:54 Cucumber from Spain is a suspected source of infection in an outbreak of salmonella After an extensive outbreak investigation, cucumber from a Spanish supplier is identified as a likely source of infection in a salmonella outbreak that started in November, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority writes in a press release. No new cases of illness have been reported in recent weeks, which may indicate that there are no longer any contaminated products on the market and that the outbreak is probably over. There are now 72 people registered who have become ill from the gastrointestinal bacterium Salmonella Agona. The peak of infection in Norway was in mid-November, and the last reported case of the disease came on 2 December. Cases of the same outbreak strain have also been reported in Sweden and the Netherlands, in the same period. – It is not always possible to find the source of infection in such outbreaks, but now some batches of cucumber from a Spanish supplier have identified themselves as the most likely source of infection, says Catherine Signe Svindland, senior adviser in the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s biological food safety section.
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