date:Jul 03, 2017
ng illness, or which farm was producing the peppers. Due to the short shelf-life of fresh peppers, the contaminated peppers were most likely no longer being sold or served when investigators suspected peppers as the outbreak source.
The Food and Drug Administration had similar reasons for not alerting the public during the 2016 outbreak, which stretched from May 6 through July 9.
The FDA worked with CDC on this outbreak, however the traceback investigation was unable to uncover a common source