date:Mar 03, 2014
of the illnesses. They also further traced the strawberries to one 22-ton lot imported frozen from China.
Investigators estimate that, assuming a similar level of contamination, potentially 11,000 cases of norovirus were prevented by the quick determination that strawberries were the source of the outbreak and the prompt withdrawal of one-half of the lot of strawberries from the market. They noted that additional illnesses were likely prevented since only a fraction of the delivered strawberri