Personal Injury Law

Produce Worker At Littleton, CO Albertson's Tests Positive For Hepatitis A

By Marler Clark LLP

 Did you ever notice the people in the produce department at the grocery store are always the friendliest?  That's probably no comfort to customers at the Albertson's in Littleton, CO who are being told that if they consumed store produced produce they should think about getting Hepatitis A vaccine shots.

The local health department will be offer vaccinations at Columbine United Church at 6375 South Platte Canyon Road Monday from 4 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The church is at South Platte Canyon Road and West Coal Mine Avenue, about one-half mile south of the Albertsons.

Health officials are warning those who have bought green onions, celery that has had the leaves trimmed, any lettuce that was not pre-bagged, any pre-cut watermelon, cantaloupe or honeydew melon.  They said the overall risk was low as the employee who tested positive for Hepatitis A did practice both thorough hand-washing and wore gloves.  

However, about 3,000 food items were subject to exposure.  For more, check out the story in Denver's last remaining daily newspaper here.

Full post as published by Hepatitis Blog on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).