A California produce company recalled a batch of cilantro Thursday that it shipped to three Canadian provinces and 23 U.S. states after salmonella bacteria was detected in the herb.

NewStar Fresh Foods based in Salinas recalled the packed cilantro labelled NewStar, Ready Set Serve, and Cross Valley Farms from food-service clients in Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba in Canada as well as those distributed in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin

More than 4,000 people in Denmark may be infected with salmonella in what may become the worst outbreak there in 15 years, health officials said Wednesday.

Urgent checks are being conducted to find the source of a salmonella outbreak that officials say may be caused by a food product distributed only in Denmark but no single source has yet been named

The recent upsurge in salmonella sicknesses across U. S. states has been linked to pet hamsters, mice, and rats.

Of the six recently hospitalized due to salmonella poisoning, four of the patients were under eight-years-old