While cooking can kill Staph, it does not destroy the toxin in the food. Staph food poisoning is not transmitted from person to person.MDH said it collected and tested clinical specimens from people who were ill, as well as from remnants of a food item consumed by those individuals.No ill individuals were hospitalized, and none of the implicated food was distributed beyond employees at the facility.Investigators said they do not believe the contaminated food came from NAFCO. Rather, someone brought in a noodle dish to share with coworkers.Stanley Pearlman Enterprises, NAFCO's parent company, released a statement last week reiterating that the food in question did not come from its facility stating, in part: "NAFCO operates under the highest health and safety standards in the industry.
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