Posted on 05/20/2017 4:00:42 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The outbreak of foodborne botulism originating from a gas station in Walnut Grove has left 10 people hospitalized, the state Department of Health reported Friday, and an Antioch resident may have died as a result.
The botulism was reported to have come from nacho cheese sauce sold at the Valley Oak Food and Fuel gas station in Walnut Grove.
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I’m pro-och.
Walnut Grove has left 10 people hospitalized..
I hope Pa and half pint are ok.
Doc Baker’s gonna be busy for a bit.
Hope he doesn’t start hitting the opium.
Just picked up twenty tamales from the back of a truck.
This dude’s wife makes amazing food...
If you don’t hear from me tomorrow then, I’ve made a terrible mistake...
They’re going to have to head to Mankato for medical supplies, and there’s a blizzard coming.
Just putting on the tux now and then taking my best girl down to the gas station for some haute cuisine. Puttin’ on the ritz, we are...
Just opened a can of water chestnuts, poured some over my stir fries then open the can up completely and there’s black mold all over the inside of the can and water chestnuts. Hell, I used to eat off the carts in Mexico(etc) I must be immune.
“What don’t kill ya makes ya stronger!”
Did anyone check the octane rating on the cheese? Low octane fuel can lead to severe knocking.
I stop at bathtub cheese!
Might be time for that gas station to find another distributor for chips and nacho cheeses.
Victims were probably overweight to begin with. Junk junk food. Ate a lot I presume.
Less than a teaspoon of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) tainted food can kill you. BoNT is the most toxic substance known.
The gas station is not at fault here, and had no way of knowing that the cheese was not safe. Clostridium botulinum only grows in food that is improperly processed, meaning that the can of cheese sauce was not sterilized at a high enough temperature for a sufficient length of time to kill the Clostridium botulinum bacterial spores. This is either an error or shortcuts occurring at the facility that manufactured the cheese.
It is very possible that the company that made the cheese will go out of business because of the liability issues. It won't be the first time a company that sold unsafe food has had to close as a result.
The gas station, however, should do fine. Unless people incorrectly blame the station for something over which its owners/operators had NO control.
That’s cruel. The guy buys nachos and cheese and dies from botulism. I don’t care who he was — nobody deserves that.
is gas station sushi still safe to eat?
“on a need to know basis”
TV rent-a-docs were right .... fast food kills.
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