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Default THIRTY people infected with Hepatitis A after frozen berry mix from Costco sparks national outbreak | Mail Online

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:51:53 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

> On 6/3/2013 11:51 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:06:41 -1000, dsi1
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/2/2013 7:17 PM, sf wrote:
> >>> I considered buying a bag of frozen mixed berries at Costco this week,
> >>> but it wasn't that brand. I'm glad I didn't now.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The good news is that your chances are slim that you'll get hepatitis A
> >> from a bag of berries.

> >
> > I see they tracked it down.
> > http://www.oregonlive.com/health/ind...in_five_s.html
> >

>
> The good news is that frozen berries are kind of yucky and you don't
> want to be eating those things anyway.


What I heard is they were being sold for smoothies. I've made yogurt
based smoothies with Trader Joe's frozen berries and they were
delicious.

BTW: They tracked it to the pomegranate seeds, which came from Turkey.

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