{"id":15093,"date":"2019-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/10\/fda-chocolates-candies-may-be-contaminated-with-hepatitis-a\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:57:17","slug":"fda-chocolates-candies-may-be-contaminated-with-hepatitis-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/10\/fda-chocolates-candies-may-be-contaminated-with-hepatitis-a\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA: Chocolates, Candies May Be Contaminated With Hepatitis A"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Worker at Bauer&#8217;s Candies facility in Kentucky tested positive for hepatitis A<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Jan. 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A public health alert about possible hepatitis A contamination in Modjeskas from Bauer&#8217;s Candies was announced Thursday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers who bought the individually wrapped marshmallow candy dipped in chocolate or caramel after Nov. 14, 2018, should throw it away. The FDA says a worker at the Bauer&#8217;s Candies facility in Kentucky tested positive for hepatitis A.<\/p>\n<p>The risk for hepatitis A transmission from the candy is low, but the FDA said that people who ate candies bought after Nov. 14 and have not been vaccinated for hepatitis A should see a health care provider to determine if they require postexposure prophylaxis (PEP). PEP may be recommended for unvaccinated people who have been exposed to hepatitis A virus in the last two weeks. Those who have been vaccinated against hepatitis A do not require PEP, the FDA said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it is not aware of any cases of hepatitis A linked to the candies. The agency is working with the company on a voluntary recall of the candies and will release details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Food\/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies\/SafetyAlertsAdvisories\/ucm627841.htm\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worker at Bauer&#8217;s Candies facility in Kentucky tested positive for hepatitis A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-15093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}