Over 100 Sick After Food Safety Summit

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Over 100 Sick After Food Safety Summit

BALTIMORE (AP) — Health officials are investigating what may have sickened over 100 people who attended a conference where more than 1,300 food safety experts had gathered.

No one at the Food Safety Summit held April 8-10 in Baltimore was hospitalized, according to health officials, and most people reported cases of diarrhea.

Alvina K. Chu, who is leading the Maryland Department of Health's investigation, said Tuesday that officials haven't yet determined what caused people to get sick. It's not yet clear if the illness was transmitted by food or from person to person, she said.

The Baltimore City Health Department received complaints of nausea and diarrhea from four people one week after the conference. After the illnesses were reported, city health officials inspected the convention center and its in-house catering company, Centerplate, on April 16, and issued a violation for condensation dripping from an ice machine, according to city health department spokesman Michael Schwartzberg.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/more-100-sickened-after-food-safety-summit

[Warren DeMontague]

1. That's more ironic than playing Alanis Morissette at your wedding

Or something

[libodem]

2. That's pretty ironic

She yells some pretty angry songs.