Kathy Dopp of Safe Tables Our Priority (S.T.O.P.) advocates for a stronger federal food safety bill in hometown newspaper, the Battlecreek Enquirer. In doing so, she tells the story of her daughter’s illness after contracting Hepatitis A from Mexican strawberries a decade ago. Here’s part of that story:
Like most 8-year-olds, my daughter, Hallie,
Hepatitis E, like Hepatitis A, is a virus that can be spread through food. It does not get as much attention as Hepatitis A because it is thought to be rare. But, how that is understood may be changing.