Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is collaborating with public health officials in multiple states to investigate an ongoing outbreak of Salmonella infections in humans.

CDC recommends that people do not eat Banquet pot pies or pot pies made by ConAgra Foods that have a printed code ending in “P9.”

Other brands of pot pies made in the ConAgra Foods factory that makes Banquet brand pot pies and sold under other brand names may also be contaminated with Salmonella. These other pot pie boxes also have a printed code ending in “P9.”

If you have any of these products at home, the safest thing to do is discard them.

Clinical features of Salmonella infections includes diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps 12-72 hours after infection. Infection is usually diagnosed by culturing a stool sample. The illness usually lasts four to seven days.

Although most people recover without treatment, severe infections may occur. Infants, elderly persons and people with impaired immune systems are more likely to develop severe illness. In severe infection, Salmonella spreads from the intestines to the bloodstream and then to other body sites. In those cases, death can occur if the person is not treated promptly with antibiotics.

To date, two persons have been found to have been infected.

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