{"id":74375,"date":"2022-07-05T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/listeria-outbreak-that-sickened-23-people-tied-to-ice-cream-brand"},"modified":"2022-07-05T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:30:20","slug":"listeria-outbreak-that-sickened-23-people-tied-to-ice-cream-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/listeria-outbreak-that-sickened-23-people-tied-to-ice-cream-brand","title":{"rendered":"Listeria outbreak that sickened 23 people tied to ice cream brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Image credit: We Are via Getty Images)A Listeria outbreak that resulted in 22 hospitalizations and one death has been linked to an ice cream brand called Big Olaf Creamery, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced (opens in new tab) July 2.Big Olaf Creamery, based in Sarasota, Florida, is voluntarily contacting stores to &#8220;recommend against selling their ice cream products,&#8221; the CDC stated. These products are sold only in Florida. In addition, &#8220;consumers who have Big Olaf Creamery brand ice cream at home should throw away any remaining product,&#8221; the CDC advised. Meanwhile, the CDC, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Florida Department of Health, and public health and regulatory officials in several other states are continuing their investigations into the outbreak, in case other products might be involved. Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause an infection called listeriosis, has slipped into ice cream and triggered similar outbreaks in the past; for example, Blue Bell ice cream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Listeria outbreak that resulted in 22 hospitalizations and one death has been linked to an ice cream brand called Big Olaf Creamery, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,192,59,222,6,60],"class_list":["post-74375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-food-drinks","tag-food-safety","tag-health","tag-ice-cream","tag-lifestyle","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}