date:May 09, 2012
As Food Safety News reported last week, the rare type of Salmonella was traced to tempeh, a fermented soy bean product made by a small local producer, Smiling Hara in Asheville.
Test results from the North Carolina Department of Public Health laboratory confirmed that the bacteria found in the tempeh matched the outbreak strain of Salmonella Paratyphyi B.
The strain associated with the outbreak causes a nontyphoidal Salmonella, which can cause severe symptoms, but not as severe as the strai