APRIL 23, 2018 - Please read the following updated information regarding a current E.Coli Outbreak                                                                    What's New?
  • Based on new information, CDC is expanding its warning to consumers to cover all types of romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona growing region. This warning now includes whole heads and hearts of romaine lettuce, in addition to chopped romaine and salads and salad mixes containing romaine.
  • Do not buy or eat romaine lettuce at a grocery store or restaurant unless you can confirm it is not from the Yuma, Arizona, growing region.
  • Unless the source of the product is known, consumers anywhere in the United States who have any store-bought romaine lettuce at home should not eat it and should throw it away, even if some of it was eaten and no one has gotten sick. Product labels often do not identify growing regions; so, throw out any romaine lettuce if you’re uncertain about where it was grown. This includes whole heads and hearts of romaine, chopped romaine, and salads and salad mixes containing romaine lettuce. If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine, do not eat it and throw it away.
  • Restaurants and retailers should not serve or sell any romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona growing region.
  • The expanded warning is based on information from newly reported illnesses in Alaska. Ill people in Alaska reported eating lettuce from whole heads of romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona growing region.
 

Beginning July 1, 2018 Connecticut will adopt the FDA Model Food Code. There are a variety of changes for food establishments and the local health departments that regulate them.​ 
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Connecticut, along with most of the rest of the Nation, is experiencing widespread influenza activity. Symptoms of the flu include fever, body aches, coughing, sneezing, and feeling unwell. Influenza is spread by contact with respiratory droplets from infectious persons.

​If you or a loved one is ill with symptoms of the flu, you should practice hand hygiene (washing hands frequently and any time after coughing or sneezing with soap and warm water), cough into your sleeve- not your hand, stay home if sick, and practice social distancing from others who are sick. If you have not received a flu shot, there is still time. Please contact your physician if interested or you can call your local pharmacy for availability.
 
More information can be obtained on the CDC website at: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/
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