One Dead, Eleven Ill in Canada after Consuming E. coli-Tainted Cheese
One elderly woman has died and 11 other individuals have fallen ill from after consuming raw milk cheese from a small artisan cheese farm in Salmon Arm, BC, that may have been contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) yesterday updated the public warning that it originally issued on Sept. 17, adding Gort's Gouda Cheese Farm brand Mild Gouda Cheese to the list of cheeses being recalled by the manufacturer due to possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination. The recall applies to cheese products bearing lot codes 122 to 138, sold online, at the farm and elsewhere in British Columbia and Alberta between May 27 and Sept. 14.