ConAgra suffers new food scare

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2007 | by Elizabeth Weise

An outbreak of salmonella that began in March, sickened at least 139 people in 30 states and sent 23 to hospitals has been linked to ConAgra's Banquet and its generic store-brand chicken and turkey pot pies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says.

The frozen pot pies were manufactured by ConAgra and bear the number "P-9" printed on the side of the packages. The Department of Agriculture is advising consumers not to eat the pies and to discard them, says Amanda Eamich with USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service. ConAgra is not recalling the pies but is offering mail-in refunds and store returns.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a multistate investigation on Oct.3 to try to identify the cause of the outbreak, looking at chicken and egg...