N.C. finds different strain of salmonella
RALEIGH (AP) - North Carolina food safety investigators looking for the source of a national salmonella outbreak have found a different strain of the bacteria.
The director of the North Carolina Agriculture Department's Food and Drug Protection Division told The Associated Press on Friday that testing found the salmonella strain oranienburg on food taken from a Charlotte-area food supplier.
Joe Reardon said it's not yet known if anyone has gotten sick from the oranienburg strain. But he said officials are looking into the possibility, and trying to determine whether food tainted with the strain has been distributed into other states.
The Centers for Disease Control has identified more than 1,200 cases of salmonella nationwide as being from the saintpaul strain of the bacteria.
