
Although it may be tempting to pick up some frozen strawberries during your next grocery run, the Food and Drug Administration advises against doing so.
Turns out, frozen berries are linked to an ongoing Hepatitis A outbreak, which began around Nov. 24, 2022. On April 12, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the patient count in the outbreak increased to a total of eight outbreak-associated cases reported from California and Washington.