Salmonella outbreak: Hundreds ill from Costco supplier’s smoked salmon

Around 200 people are known to have become ill in the Netherlands after consuming smoked salmon infected with salmonella thompson supplied by Harderwijk-headquartered Dutch seafood processor Foppen Eel & Zalm, a number expected to go up significantly.

"This problem is just the tip of the iceberg," a spokesperson at Netherland's National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) told IntraFish.

"A lot more people are expected to be infected; but not everybody infected necessarily fall ill," he said.

Apart from the Netherlands, the products were distributed to the United States, according to the RIVM.

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