Coronet Foods in Wheeling is being linked to a salmonella outbreak in food sold at Sheetz convenience stores in Pennsylvania.
Coronet Foods acknowledged that the Pennsylvania Health Department has linked the Sheetz chain of stores to a salmonella outbreak in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland. As a produce supplier of Sheetz, Coronet told reporter Bethany Holstein it is aware of the possibility of the bacteria in its processing plant.
According to Alicia Thayer, the quality assurance manager and director of safety for Coronet Foods, Sheetz is still doing business with the company.