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Created on: 08/06/2008 06:30:02 PM
By: Nicole Muehlhausen, Web Producer
Salmonella illness linked to Roseville restaurant's peppers
New answers came Wednesday in a salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 27 people in Minnesota.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned the victims all have something in common: They ate at the same restaurant.
State health officials said The Good Earth restaurant in Roseville was very unlucky. They did nothing wrong and it was pure chance they received a shipment of tainted jalapeno peppers.
Between June 13 and June 22, 27 people reported cases of salmonella to the Department of Health. Investigators were able to determine 20 were patrons and seven were Good Earth employees.
In fact, the cases match the strain of bacteria that has made more than 1,200 people sick in 43 states and Canada.
The FDA has linked the outbreak to a Mexican farm, but is still asking people to avoid eating raw jalapeno peppers and any foods that contain them.
The state said The Good Earth fully cooperated with the investigation. The restaurant’s manager said jalapeno peppers have been taken off the menu.