More Than 100 Sickened After Food Safety Summit

More than 1300 food safety experts were at the confab at which 100 got sick.

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.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.