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?Ready-to-eat? salads from two major supermarket chains were behind a stomach infection which poisoned 300 shoppers, the Health Protection Agency has claimed.
The bug has been traced back to pre-cut bagged salad products which are likely to have been labelled as ?ready-to-eat?, the HPA said.
The salads are believed to have been bought from Morrisons and Asda, although a HPA spokeswoman pointed out that most supermarkets chains in the UK have the same suppliers, so any one of them could have been affected.
A sample of 25% of those who became unwell found 46% recalled eating mixed leaf bagged salad from the Morrisons, while 11% ate spinach from the Asda chain, the HPA reported.
The recall rate is "extremely high", as people often cannot remember what they bought, and the figures provide a ?statistically significant association?, the agency say.
Experts believe that the Cryptosporidium infection may have come from the spinach which would have been in both bags.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...d-Asda-caused-infection-outbreak-HPA-say.html
The bug has been traced back to pre-cut bagged salad products which are likely to have been labelled as ?ready-to-eat?, the HPA said.
The salads are believed to have been bought from Morrisons and Asda, although a HPA spokeswoman pointed out that most supermarkets chains in the UK have the same suppliers, so any one of them could have been affected.
A sample of 25% of those who became unwell found 46% recalled eating mixed leaf bagged salad from the Morrisons, while 11% ate spinach from the Asda chain, the HPA reported.
The recall rate is "extremely high", as people often cannot remember what they bought, and the figures provide a ?statistically significant association?, the agency say.
Experts believe that the Cryptosporidium infection may have come from the spinach which would have been in both bags.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...d-Asda-caused-infection-outbreak-HPA-say.html
