Time: Wed Apr 02 15:58:33 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02645; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:22:17 -0700 (MST) id RAA25181; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:12:35 -0500 (EST) id RAA25177; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:12:33 -0500 (EST) id AA08466; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:12:31 -0500 by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA25477 for <snetnews@world.std.com>; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 15:12:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 15:26:14 -0800 To: snetnews@world.std.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SNET: Students in six states may have been exposed to tainted st -> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List thesis antithesis synthesis /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com At 12:42 PM 4/2/97 -0800, you wrote: > >-> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List > >Students in six states may have been exposed to tainted strawberries > > >Copyright c 1997 Nando.net >Copyright c 1997 The Associated Press > >LOS ANGELES (Apr 2, 1997 1:25 p.m. EST) -- Schoolchildren in six states may >have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus by eating contaminated frozen >strawberries that had been shipped as a part of a federal school lunch >program. > >So far, the only reported illnesses linked to the tainted berries were in >Michigan, where about 151 students and teachers have been sickened, apparently >after eating strawberries provided at lunch, federal authorities said. > >In Los Angeles, up to 9,000 youngsters and adults may have been exposed. >School and health officials determined that fruit cups served last week in 18 >Los Angeles public schools may have been contaminated with the virus. > >As a precaution, California health officials planned to offer protective gamma >globulin shots later this week. > >"It's not a panic situation," said Dr. Shirley Fannin, Los Angeles County's >director of disease control programs, noting that there is a 14-day incubation >period. "We're here within a week of consumption. We have another week to >plan." > >Unlike more dangerous forms of the disease, hepatitis A causes a mild liver >infection and is spread through uncooked food. Those at risk of more severe >symptoms are the elderly, people with weak immune systems and the very young. > >For most people, symptoms appear about 28 days after exposure. They include >jaundice, fatigue, abdominal discomfort, vomiting, fever and dark urine. > >The virus can be transmitted orally or through human waste, often by food >handlers with poor personal hygiene, through undercooked shellfish from >infected waters or through tainted water or ice. > >Gamma globulin is effective before exposure and within two weeks after. > >Tom Amontree, communications director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture >in Washington, said Tuesday that 17 states might have been shipped tainted >strawberries and were asked to "put a hold" on the fruit, which came from the >same company. > >But today, the agency and the Food and Drug Administration said only six >states -- Michigan, Arizona, California, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee -- >received berries believed linked to the outbreak because all bore the same lot >number. Nine other states and the District of Columbia received shipments from >the same company but the berries had different lot numbers, the agencies said. > >Those states are Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, >North Carolina, North Dakota and Wisconsin. > >The California Department of Health Services determined the strawberries were >grown in Mexico, then frozen and processed by Andrew and Williamson Sales of >San Diego last spring. The agency said the strawberries were shipped for bulk >distribution to USDA-sponsored school lunch programs in December. > >Ken August, a spokesman for the California Department of Health Services, said >that after receiving the frozen strawberries, the L.A. school district sent >them on to another company that "added strawberries and blueberries to the >frozen sliced strawberries and made it into the dessert." > >Mary Hagen, manager of investor relations for Epitope Inc. of Beaverton, Ore., >the parent of Andrew and Williamson, said today that Epitope isn't sure what >caused the problem. Epitope officials are at the San Diego subsidiary today >looking into it. > >"The problem could have occurred at any number of levels," she said. "It could >have been at the growers or in the packaging or in the processing somewhere. >The company is looking into everything." > >Efforts are made at the packaging plant to make sure the strawberries are >clean, Hagen said. > >Epitope recalled 13 lots of frozen berries shipped by Andrew and Williamson >early in December 1996, shortly before Epitope acquired the company. > >"The health and well-being of the public is Andrew and Williamson's foremost >concern," Epitope President Adolph J. Ferro said Tuesday in a statement. > >Iowa officials warned that about 300 of Iowa's schools may have served the >fruit as recently as last week. > >In Michigan, 128 cases of hepatitis A have been confirmed in two counties. Bob >Howard, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's >National Center for Infectious Diseases, said an investigation has "strongly >implicated" a single batch of strawberries. > > >Anomalous Images and UFO Files >http://www.anomalous-images.com > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: "Steve Wingate" <steve@anomalous-images.com> > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. 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