The Tennessee State Department of Health and CDC are collaborating with public health officials in multiple states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) to investigate an ongoing multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections in humans. A study comparing foods eaten by ill persons to foods eaten by well persons showed that eating frozen pizza that contained pepperoni and was produced by the General Mills company under the brand names of Totino's or Jeno's was the likely source of the illness.
For more information about the recall go to:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_049_2007_Release/index.asp
For information about E.coli O157:H7 infection go here:
http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/Epidemiology/factsheets/Escherichia.htm