{"id":233193,"date":"2026-05-15T21:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:55:28","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-connecticut-department-of-health-urges-shellfish-safety-from-imported-products-amid-hepatitis-a-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233193\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Connecticut Department Of Health Urges Shellfish Safety From Imported Products Amid Hepatitis A Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) Commissioner Manisha Juthani, M.D. issued a statement Friday urging Connecticut residents to be aware of a hepatitis A outbreak investigation in New York state.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Connecticut has a proud shellfish harvesting tradition, and our state works hard every day to protect the safety of that industry and residents who enjoy it.&#8221; Juthani stated.&#8221; The Department of Public Health, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), and the Connecticut Department of Agriculture (DoAg) maintain a robust, year-round statewide shellfish safety and sanitation program,&#8221; said Juthani.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation is linked to contaminated shellfish, and residents are advised to take common-sense precautions when consuming raw or undercooked shellfish. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation has been linked to fresh-frozen blood clams, also known as concha negra, imported from Ecuador and distributed within New York state. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The public health team is working to ensure the product is not sold to consumers at Connecticut establishments.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Health Department says there is currently no confirmed link between this outbreak and Connecticut-harvested shellfish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) Commissioner Manisha Juthani, M.D. issued a statement Friday urging Connecticut residents to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-233193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}