Oklahoma officials testing whether man's death linked to peanut butter
State officials in Tulsa Oklahoma are trying to determine whether a salmonella outbreak traced to the peanut butter recall played a role in a Tulsa man's death. Assistant laboratory director for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, said a peanut butter sample provided by the man's wife was tested and matched to Salmonella Tennessee (the strain that caused illnesses in hundreds of people across the country. The state is conducting more tests to determine whether the suspected organisms found in the peanut butter were present in the man's body. The director told the state Board of Agriculture the man was already suffering from an undisclosed illness before his death this month.
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