At least 61 people in Canada have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced back to imported Italian mini-pastries. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for the Sweet Cream brand pastries, sold at catered events, hospitals, and retirement homes in several provinces. Canadian officials are investigating the source of the contamination and may send inspectors to Italy.
An assortment of Sweet Cream brand mini pastries are shown in an undated handout image. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
A food safety recall specialist at CFIA said deciding whether to send inspectors abroad will be based on a variety of factors, such as the scope of the manufacturer’s overall distribution in Canada, and the Italians' co-operation with sending over production records. Canadian officials notified the Italian government Saturday that the Sweet Cream brand of mini pastries is recalled here after products were sold by a Quebec-based importer to customers in Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario and potentially other provinces and territories, Griffin said.
Panetta said he’s shared documents with federal inspectors that show the recalled pastries — which include 12 varieties of baked goods, such as berry tarts and lemon cream puffs — were pasteurized. Griffin clarified that this recall has no relation to the recall of a variety of Canadian egg brands, also due to salmonella, issued over the weekend, and that the timing of the recalls was purely a coincidence.
Among the 61 cases reported, the majority were female and 17 people were hospitalized. The age range of those who became ill is between three and 88 years old.
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