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California chicken still linked to salmonella

By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Published May 28, 2014 9:52pm ET
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California chicken still linked to salmonella
FILE - This Oct. 10, 2013 file photo shows a truck entering the Foster Farms processing plant in Livingston, Calif. An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to a California chicken company is ongoing after more than a year, with 50 new illnesses in the last two months and 574 sickened since March 2013. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are about eight new salmonella illnesses linked to the outbreak a week, most of them in California. So far, there has been no recall of Foster Farms chicken. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) | Rich Pedroncelli

WASHINGTON (AP) — An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to a California chicken producer continues to sicken people more than a year after it started.

Despite the illnesses, producer Foster Farms has not initiated a recall, and the government has no apparent plans to shut it down.

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