Daniele International brand salami has been confirmed as a source in a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella montevideo, according to the Washington and Iowa state health departments.
The initial salame recall was announced by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and involved 1.24 million pounds of Italian sausage, pepper salami, genoa salami and other recalled ready-to-eat sausage products. The company and health experts believe the black pepper in these products may have been the cause of the contamination. Daniele has stopped production of all salame / salami products.
Daniele Salami Salmonella Information
The Salmonella montevideo outbreak has so far sickened 189 people in 40 states and 37 of those people were hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The distribution of illnesses in each state is as follows:
AL (2), AZ (5), CA (30), CO (3), CT (4), DE (2), FL (2), GA (3), IA (1), ID (2), IL (11), IN (3), KS (3), LA (1), MA (12), MD (1), ME (1), MI (1), MN (4), MO (1), NC (9), ND (1), NE (1), NH (1), NJ (7), NY (15), OH (9), OK (1), OR (8), PA (3), RI (2), SC (1), SD (3), TN (4), TX (7), UT (7), VA (1), WA (14), WV (1), and WY (2)
Because Salmonella montevideo is a relatively common strain, the CDC continues to report that other foods beyond the Daniele meats could have caused some of the 189 illnesses, all of which have been reported between July 2009 and January 7, 2010.
Salmonella food poisoning, called salmonellosis, can in rare cases lead to Reiter’s Syndrome. Salmonellosis symptoms at first can appear flu-like, and may include diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain among other signs.
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In order for bacteria to survive, there would have had been some moisture of some kind in the black pepper prior to grinding it up. Otherwise I would think the meat would be more suspect than a dry spice.