A package of frozen strawberries sold at Costco was found to contain the hepatitis A virus, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday, marking the third time the virus has been found in frozen berries from the retailer.
The positive sample was taken from a batch of Kirkland Signature Grade A Fancy Strawberries that had already been sold in stores, the FDA said.
The strawberries originated in Mexico and expire on Aug. 5 next year, the agency said.
Photo courtesy of the Food and Drug Administration
Previously flagged batches of mixed berries and blueberries were from Chile and the US.
Of the 1,546 bags imported in the batch, 33 are in storage and 1,513 had been sold, the FDA said.
The product was removed from shelves on April 30, and a recall was issued for all unexpired Kirkland Signature frozen berry products on May 5.
Between May 1 and Tuesday, the FDA had taken 74 samples from Costco stores, finding one positive for the hepatitis A virus. Thirty are still undergoing testing.
Costco has been requested to submit a report on the issue by May 31, the FDA said, adding that imports of affected products have been halted until rectification measures are made.
Asked what might be the cause, considering that all three batches come from different sources, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Department of Clinical Toxicology director Yen Tsung-hai (顏宗海) said that polluted water is likely the culprit.
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
Taiwan-Japan Travel Passes are available for use on public transit networks in the two countries, Taoyuan Metro Corp said yesterday, adding that discounts of up to 7 percent are available. Taoyuan Metro, the Taipei MRT and Japan’s Keisei Electric Railway teamed up to develop the pass. Taoyuan Metro operates the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line, while Keisei Electric Railway offers express services between Tokyo’s Narita Airport, and the Keisei Ueno and Nippori stations in the Japanese capital, as well as between Narita and Haneda airports. The basic package comprises one one-way ticket on the Taoyuan MRT Line and one Skyliner ticket on
EVERYONE’S ISSUE: Kim said that during a visit to Taiwan, she asked what would happen if China attacked, and was told that the global economy would shut down Taiwan is critical to the global economy, and its defense is a “here and now” issue, US Representative Young Kim said during a roundtable talk on Taiwan-US relations on Friday. Kim, who serves on the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, held a roundtable talk titled “Global Ties, Local Impact: Why Taiwan Matters for California,” at Santiago Canyon College in Orange County, California. “Despite its small size and long distance from us, Taiwan’s cultural and economic importance is felt across our communities,” Kim said during her opening remarks. Stanford University researcher and lecturer Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜), lawyer Lin Ching-chi
A pro-Russia hacker group has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Taiwanese government in retaliation for President William Lai’s (賴清德) comments suggesting that China should have a territorial dispute with Russia, an information security company said today. The hacker group, NoName057, recently launched an HTTPs flood attack called “DDoSia” targeting Taiwanese government and financial units, Radware told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times). Local tax bureaus in New Taipei City, Keelung, Hsinchu and Taoyuan were mentioned by the hackers. Only the Hsinchu Local Tax Bureau site appeared to be down earlier in the day, but was back
RSS