Jen Harris, Todd County Health Department’s public information officer and health director, issued a food safety alert Friday afternoon — cautioning citizens to not eat any of the strawberries purchased through the recent Todd County Central High School softball and FFA fundraisers.
Per officials, more than 120 flats of the distributed fruit came from suppliers in Juicy Fruit, LLC, Southern Grown and Sizemore Farms.
This alert, she said, is in conjunction with a warning issued earlier Friday from the Hopkins County Health Department, in which their Public Health Director Denise Beach released a statement about an incident that led to the call:
“According to Dr. Christopher Kiefer, medical examiner, the incident involving strawberries looks like an isolated allergic reaction. He relates that this is a preliminary report, so we still advise not eating the strawberries currently.”
Harris also noted the Department for Public Health Environmental Team has taken samples of strawberries to the state’s lab for testing, and at this time, it is not known if any strawberries in any country have been contaminated.
Caldwell County School officials have issued the same warning, while Trigg County School administrators said their recent shipments came from other distributors.
