Reconsidering vaccination recommendations is one potential follow-up action after a ‘large and prolonged’ Hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen berries that sickened more than 1,500 people.
Molecular diagnostics, typing and quantification should be used to better understand the burden of virus contamination in foodstuffs, according to an advisory group.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found it “likely” that shipments of pomegranate seeds imported by Goknur of Turkey are responsible for the Hepatitis A outbreak which has now infected 127 people across the US.
Contamination during sun-dried tomato processing is a possible “root cause” of an outbreak of hepatitis A in the UK, according to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA).