Yep, you read it right.  We’re reporting on a nation-wide recall of salmonella tainted salami–roughly 1.25 million pounds of it.  It’s never easy to pinpoint cases of foodborne illness to a specific food item but the hard working health department officials in Oregon the shopping receipts compared of persons who had fallen ill and there was one connecting culprit:  Salami.

There have been a total of 184 people in 38 states who have gotten sick from tainted salami, although it’s unknown whether it is the spices or the meat itself that contains the bacteria.

Bottom line:  stick to the BLT for a while.

Don't eat this floor--it's made of Salami!

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