The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is declaring an end to the Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak that sickened at least 190 people who ate “kosher broiled chicken livers” from Schreiber Processing Corp. of Maspeth, New York.
A final update on the chicken livers outbreak said the products appeared to be ready-to-eat, but in fact were only partially cooked and needed more heating. More than 100 of the victims were from New York, 62 were from New Jersey, 10 were from Pennsylvania and six were from Maryland, the CDC said. Nineteen percent of the victims were hospitalized, but no one died.
The outbreak was solved by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Laboratory Division after inspectors found the outbreak strain of Salmonella in chicken livers packages in retail stores.
The outbreak began in August but it wasn’t until November 8 when Schreiber Processing issued a recall of an undetermined amount of “kosher broiled chicken livers”
