Butterball LLC Recalls Turkey Products Due to Salmonella Schwarzengrund Contamination

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced t that Butterball, LLC, from Mount Olive, N.C., recalled approximately 78,164 pounds of raw ground turkey products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Schwarzengrund. The prepared raw ground turkey was produced on July 7, 2018. These items were shipped to institutional and retail locations nationwide. FSIS and public health partners, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, have been investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Schwarzengrund illnesses involving 5 case patients from 2 states. Wisconsin collected three intact Butterball brand ground turkey samples from a residence where 4 of the case patients live. The case patients and ground turkey Salmonella Schwarzengrund isolates are closely related, genetically. @ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2019/recall-030-2019-release