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<br /> <br /> <br />Chapel Hill Creamery Issues Voluntary Recall After <br />Salmonella Outbreak <br /> <br />By Blake Hodge <br />SHARE THIS: <br />Posted July 28, 2016 at 4:41 pm <br />Photo via chapelhillcreamery.com <br />A multi-state Salmonella outbreak may have started at Chapel Hill Creamery. <br />Orange County Health Department director Dr. Colleen Bridger said the investigation began because of <br />local numbers that were out of sync with normal figures. <br />“Orange County, Durham County, Wake County and Chatham County were all noticing that we had <br />higher-than-usual reported cases of Salmonella,” Bridger said. <br />Bridger said “it’s not unusual” to see spikes in Salmonella throughout the year but these spikes were out <br />of the ordinary. That caused officials to ask those who had tested positive for Salmonella ab out their <br />eating habits in an attempt to pinpoint the source. <br />“In doing that questionnaire,” Bridger said, “we had one person identify that they had eaten cheese from <br />Chapel Hill Creamery.” <br />Bridger said that the state Department of Agriculture reached out to the Orange County Health <br />Department around that same time to report that they had a sample from Chapel Hill Creamery test <br />positive for Salmonella. Bridger said further testing determined the same strain found in the sample from <br />Chapel Hill Creamery was found in those testing positive for Salmonella.