Table 3.
Laboratory Results and Production Dates of Samples of Castleberry Hot Dog Chili Sauce Collected From Patients’ Homes and the Canning Facility
| Food Collected | Production Date (2007) |
Collection Site | Toxin Detected |
Toxin Concentration (LD50/g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unopened can | 7 May | Home of patients 1–3 from Texas | No | … |
| Opened empty cana | 8 May | Home of patients 4–5 from Indiana | No | … |
| Leftover chili mixturea | … | Home of patients 4–5 from Indiana | Yes | ~4000 |
| Unopened can | 8 May | Home of patient 8 from Ohio | No | … |
| Leftover chili | … | Home of patient 6 from Ohio | Yes | Not determined |
| 20 unopened swollen cans | 8 May | Canning facility | Yes | Not determined |
| 3 unopened swollen cans | 8 May | Canning facility | No | … |
Abbreviation: LD50, mouse intraperitoneal lethal dose 50/g, or the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population of mice per gram of sample.
a
Leftover chili mixture contained the implicated product from the open empty can also recovered from the patients’ home.