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December 15, 2006

State: Don't eat food from Compare Foods on Broad St.

PROVIDENCE -- State health officials are warning people not to eat prepared food purchased from the Broad Street market Compare Foods.

Items such as sandwiches, deli meats and cheeses and various salads such as tuna, macaroni and seafood may contain a dangerous bacteria known as Listeria monocytogenes.

"Multiple samples collected from this market during an investigation of an illness due to this organism were positive for this bacterium," reads an advisory issued this evening by the health department.

The bacteria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems, according to the state. Healthy officials may suffer only short-term symptoms such as fever, severe headache or diarrhea. But the bacteria can cause miscarriages among pregnant women.

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 6:33 PM | Permalink

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