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Mar 6, 2009 4:05 pm US/Central

Feds Sue Chicago Tortilla Maker Del Rey

CHICAGO (AP) ― The federal government has sued a Chicago food company, charging unsanitary conditions in the plant where it makes soft-shell flour tortillas.

The company, Del Rey Tortilleria Inc., immediately agreed Friday to a consent decree under which it will stop making soft-shell flour tortillas pending Food and Drug Administration approval of its safety program.

Among other things, two FDA-approved safety experts must be hired.
The company will continue to manufacture tostadas, fried tortilla chips and masa, or corn flour.

The complaint said outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness in school children in Wisconsin and Massachusetts were associated with the company's flour tortillas.

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