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The Food Safety Agency calls for caution on the Salmonella outbreak that Norway links to Spanish cucumbers

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Spain
Published Jan 3, 2023

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The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (Aesan), attached to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, has called for caution to avoid generating alarm because of an outbreak of Salmonella registered in Norway, which the Nordic country associates with the consumption of Spanish cucumbers. Aesan's sources issued this statement to Servimedia after the newspaper El País wrote about this issue based on information issued by the Norwegian authorities.

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The same sources pointed out that authorities had not confirmed that the outbreak had originated from food of Spanish origin. They also stated that the information reported by Norway through the EU Rapid Alert System (RASFF) was inconclusive and had not been totally verified, which means the outbreak could have been caused by other food. Aesan has already contacted the Alerts and Emergencies Coordination Center and the regional authorities to analyze traceability in case the food is of Spanish origin. An outbreak in Norway, the Netherlands, and SwedenThe Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported that a total of 72 people in the country, 24 of whom required hospitalization, were diagnosed with the gastrointestinal bacterium Salmonella agona between late October and early December. After analyzing more than 50 patient interviews and their purchasing information, the authorities discovered that nearly 90 percent of the people infected had eaten cucumber the week before they got ...
Source: Hortidaily
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